Quotes About Committee

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

So the mind's committee is less like a communion of saints planning a charity event, and more like a corrupt city council, with the balance of power constantly shifting between different factions, and many deals being made in back rooms.

The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs.

When I was counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee, about 25% of the important leads which our committee developed came from newspapers. This increased my respect for those courageous newspapers which assisted us. It also caused me to look with wonderment at some of the newspapers that did not.

Europe. On that basis the Joint Intelligence Committee and later the British Government, designated 1957 as the 'year of maximum danger'. The idea of a critical year had been adopted pre-war; in 1934, the year 1939 was so designated. The US Government adopted this British reasoning.

Football combines two of the worst features of American life," wrote conservative baseball scholar George Will. "It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Flag committee chairman Miles did not agree with that sentiment. He opposed adoption of this design and wrote:There is no propriety in retaining the ensign of a government which, in the opinion of the States composing this Confederacy, had become so oppressive and injurious to their interests as to require their separation from it.It is idle to talk of 'keeping' the flag of the United States when we have voluntarily seceded from them.

NED: Why can't you just say yes? BEN: Because we have a committee. NED: But you're the senior partner and I'm your brother. BEN: I fail to see what bearing that has on the matter. You're asking me to ask my partners to give up income that would ordinarily come into their pocket.

As Joe recalled, Dingell didn't know who the freshman Congressman was. "You like clean air up there?" Dingell asked when he learned the young man was from Boston. Joe nodded in the affirmative. "Well, I'm from Detroit and I don't, and there's no chance you'll ever get on that committee." That

Future presidential candidates Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona and Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts were members of the committee. The committee's chief counsel and principal interrogator was the future president's younger brother and the nation's future attorney general, Bobby Kennedy. As a result of his aggressive work on the committee, Bobby Kennedy was to become Jimmy Hoffa's mortal enemy. Johnny

The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming.

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.

Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.

There's rule changes every year. I do wish, however, that the NFL did have a voice from the players' side, whether it's our players' union president, or team captains, or our executive committee on the players' side. Because we're the guys that realize the risk; we're the guys on the field.

I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations.

Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.

Shortly after Senator Eugene J. McCarthy died in 2005 the age of 89, I became an honorary member of the committee starting a fellowship in McCarthy's name at his alma mater, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.

We should steadily intensify the work of establishing the Party's monolithic leadership system to make the whole Party share ideology with the Party Central Committee, breathe the same breath as it, and keep pace with it.

I was on the steering committee of the New York City Coalition on Muslim School Holidays.

The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration failed to take steps immediately to improve security.

The populace was mesmerized primarily because real life was suddenly as exciting as the movies. And all those famous faces! Big-name movie stars assuring the Committee they were four-square for the USA, and praising the Committee for the work they were doing, was a triumph for the Committee, and it went to their heads, eventually.