Committees Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• Any terrorists that have come here and committee acts from 9/11 have come here in some form of a visa.

  Chuck Todd

  Form, Terrorist, Visa

  Source: www.nbcnews.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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• If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.

  William Graham Sumner

  Running, Country, Humorous

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• Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments.

  Maurice Bowra

  Mind, Allies, Argument

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• The problem is fundamental... It is as if a secret committee, now lost to history, has made a study of children and, having figured out what the greatest number were least disposed to declared that all of them should do it.

  Tracy Kidder

  Children, Numbers, Secret

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• Richard Nixon was a Republican presidential candidate who encouraged crooks to commit espionage against the Democratic National Committee in order to gain an edge in a presidential election.

  Tim Kaine

  Order, Presidential, Crooks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you work on network TV, they want to pick your casts, dictate your story and how your show works. It just becomes creativity by committee, which is never good.

  Judd Apatow

  Creativity, Stories, Want

  Interview with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. July 5, 2016.

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• I have a lot of experience dealing with classified material, starting when I was on the Senate Armed Services Committee going into the four years as secretary of state.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, Four, Starting

  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's Remarks at a Military Forum, time.com. September 7, 2016.

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• I know Donald's [Trump] very praiseworthy of Vladimir Putin, but Putin is playing a really tough, long game here. And one of the things he's done is to let loose cyber attackers to hack into government files, to hack into personal files, hack into the Democratic National Committee. And we recently have learned that, you know, that this is one of their preferred methods of trying to wreak havoc and collect information.

  Hillary Clinton

  Government, Games, Long

  Source: time.com

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• Well, as soon as [Donald Trump] travels to 112 countries and negotiates a peace deal, a cease-fire, a release of dissidents, an opening of new opportunities in nations around the world, or even spends 11 hours testifying in front of a congressional committee, he can talk to me about stamina.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Opportunity, Fire

  Source: time.com

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• I don't think teachers read the textbooks. And I don't think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think they look at them.

  James W. Loewen

  Teacher, Thinking, Adoption

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave…". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

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• The point is not that [Bob] Dylan doesn't need a Nobel to attest to how good he is (although he doesn't.) It's that pop music, pop music of any kind, doesn't need the Nobel committee to damn it with the faint praise of such an award to its sole chosen representative.

  David Bennun

  Awards, Needs, Bob

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The first time I ran for office in 2002, running for governor in Massachusetts against Mitt Romney, we actually worked with a Democratic legislator to file that bill, so that there would be no risk of splitting the vote. The Democrats had about 85% of the Legislature at that time. They could have easily protected their access to the governorship. But they refused to do so. They wouldn't let the bill out of committee.

  Jill Stein

  Running, Office, Risk

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• [Bob] Dylan may, for whatever reasons of his own, do nothing of the sort with the Nobel committee. Up there on Parnassus, that is his unquestionable prerogative. But here on my anthill, it's mine to say: oh, do piss off, you ineffable snobs.

  David Bennun

  May, Bob, Reason

  Source: thequietus.com

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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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• [Donald] Trump`s campaign, the Republican National Committee and state parties employ just 1,409 staffers in 16 states. So, nearly for the one, democratic advantage in human resources, the big question now is, how well does that turn out machinery work for democrats for Election Day?

  Chris Hayes

  Party, Doe, Campaigns

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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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• I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one hundred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Women, Struggle, Issues

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• The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.

  Anna Quindlen

  Empathy, Prejudice, Dollars

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.131, Ballantine Books

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