Committees Quotes - Page 16

• When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it.

  Fred Hollows

  Leadership, Opportunity, Community

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• What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper or editors or agents or even writers. We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

  John Green

  Real, Book, Writing

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• The American people will be appalled to learn the health care bill exempts (congressional) leadership and committee staff.

  Tom Coburn

  People, Care, Bills

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• In 1975 a Senate committee headed by Frank Church found that the [Central Intelligence] Agency had planned a number of assassination operations, using everything from poison to machine guns and sometimes mob hit men

  Jim Garrison

  Men, Gun, Numbers

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• How far back to the elementary school core curriculum do we have to go to get someone on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology caught up?

  Jon Stewart

  School, Technology, Space

  "Jon Stewart Schools Congress On Climate Change With A Simple Demonstration" By Ed Mazza, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Make something happen today, before you go home, before the end of the week. Launch that idea, post that post, run that ad, call that customer. Go the edge, that edge you've been holding back from... and do it today. Without waiting for the committee or your boss or the market. Just go.

  Seth Godin

  Running, Home, Ideas

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• Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony.

  John McCain

  Mosquitoes, Nudists, Commerce

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• I found myself in network always trying to play catch up because once things get going there's no time to fix this and that. And also the writing, it was more inclined to be by committee in network which drowns out the purity and the voice of the show.

  Dennis Quaid

  Writing, Always Trying, Play

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will spring.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Spring, Shady, Grows

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• Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Ideas, Sometimes, Consumers

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• A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Twelve

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• Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.

  Mark B. Cohen

  Law, Instigators, Random Thoughts

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• That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973.

  Jon Stewart

  Ethics, Rolex, Oxymoron

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• No committee could ever come up with anything as revolutionary as a camel - anything as practical and as perfectly designed to perform effectively under such difficult conditions.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Camels, Revolutionary, Come Up

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• I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs is a mind that sends and minds that receive. I shall teach my own students how to teach themselves. My own school. No buildings. Break out of the classroom prison. All I need is SKY. The Universe can be my classroom - the great vast world of the Concord countryside.

  Henry David Thoreau

  School, Sky, Mind

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• It is precisely those members of Congress who have had the most to do with creating the risks that led to the current economic crisis who are making the most noise against others, and summoning people before their committee to be browbeaten and humiliated on nationwide television.

  Thomas Sowell

  Creating, People, Risk

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• [Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and autonomous corporation, mainly devoted to exploiting the population for the benefit of its own members.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Population, Citizens

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.147, Vintage

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• The natural tendency of the state is inflation. This statement will shock those accustomed to viewing the state as a committee of the whole nation ardently dispensing the general welfare, but I think it nonetheless true.

  Murray Rothbard

  Thinking, Welfare, Natural

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• My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.

  Yaya DaCosta

  Mother, Father, Rights

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• The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.

  Karl Marx

  Class, States, Ruling

  Karl Marx, Hal Draper, Friedrich Engels (1984). “The annotated communist manifesto”

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• When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That's not what this program is about. ... What the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers, and durations of calls; they are not looking at people's names and they're not looking at content. ... If the intelligence committee actually wants to listen to a phone call they have to go back to a federal judge, just like they would in a criminal investigation.

  Barack Obama

  Phones, Nsa, Names

  Obama's Remarks on Health Care and Surveillance, www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2013.

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• The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.

  Celia Green

  Psychology, Special, Cases

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• Committee meetings are always held at inconvenient times and usually take place in dark, dusty rooms the temperatures of which are unsuited to the human body.

  Virginia Graham

  Dark, Body, Rooms

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• You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Book, History, History Books

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• What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbor? ... The real Love knows her neighbor face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.

  Stella Benson

  Real, Voice, Laughing

  Stella Benson (2012). “Living Alone”, p.65, tredition

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