Committees Quotes - Page 21

• I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Want, Select, Nations

  1909 In Pearson's Magazine, Mar.

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• The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a socialist central committee. The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Self, Class, Roots

  "Revolutionary Socialist Organization". Book by Rosa Luxemburg, www.marxists.org. 1934.

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• It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.

  Conrad Black

  Hypocrite, Sitting, Biden

  "The World According to Conrad Black". www.thestar.com. March 11, 2007.

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• At a time when the threat of nuclear arms is again increasing, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to underline that this threat must be met through the broadest possible international cooperation. This principle finds its clearest expression today in the work of the IAEA and its Director General. In the nuclear non-proliferation regime, it is the IAEA which ensures that nuclear energy is not misused for military purposes, and the Director General has stood out as an unafraid advocate of new measures to strengthen that regime.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Military, Expression, Wish

  "Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to IAEA and Director General". www.iaea.org. October 07, 2005.

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• The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse.

  Jaron Lanier

  Crush, Spiritual, Thinking

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• It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it was as well recognised that the two would always have a turbulent interface, and that the clique, the caucus, and the conspiracy were as ineradicable features of civility as the council or the committee.

  Ken MacLeod

  Two, Long, Opaque

  Ken MacLeod (2012). “Learning The World: A novel of first contact”, p.113, Hachette UK

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• The American Jewish Committee has pioneered the German-Jewish-American dialogue.

  Klaus Kinkel

  Dialogue

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• I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

  Ben Bernanke

  Independent, Political, Essentials

  Ben Bernanke's Testimony Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate, www.federalreserve.gov. November 15, 2005.

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• The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

  V. S. Pritchett

  States

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• Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Sorry, Home, Years

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Science, Unique, Awards

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• I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.

  Mike Rogers

  Community, Information, Way

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• Senator, my answer is that the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court requires that nominees before this committee for a position on that court not forecast, give predictions, give hints, about how they might rule in cases that might come before the Supreme Court,.

  John Roberts

  Integrity, Giving, Independence

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• In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.

  Kevin Kelly

  School, Self, Entrepreneur

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• Vermont is such a small state, and the most money that's ever been spent in the history of political campaigns there is $2 million. That number is going to be surpassed many times. Vermont remains a "cheap state" for the Republican National Committee. So putting $5 or $10 million into Vermont - compared to New York or California or Illinois - that's small potatoes.

  Bernie Sanders

  New York, Illinois, California

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 1, 2005.

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• I went to Oberlin College, and they don't have a film major, but they do have what's called an individual major, where you can sort of pitch to a committee your own course study, and if they approve it, you have essentially just designed your own major. So Oberlin doesn't have a film major; they do have a film minor... And then my spring semester of my junior year, I went off to NYU film school as a visiting student - they have a program for kids from other schools to come in for a semester.

  Ed Helms

  Spring, School, Kids

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart.

  Mark Thomas

  Clever, Thinking, People

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• I would trust Shakespeare, but I would not trust a committee of Shakespeares.

  William Bateson

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• I was the enemy of the major studio. I believed in one man - one film. I believed one man should make the film. And I believed the director should be that one man. One man should do it - I didn't give a damn who. I just couldn't accept art as a committee. I could only accept art as an extension of an individual.

  Frank Capra

  Art, Men, Giving

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• I understand the needs of both the military and the veteran, and that has helped me tremendously as a congressman. I am proud to serve on the House Committee on Veterans Affairs.

  Phil Roe

  Military, House, Needs

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• I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Cities, Parks, Statues

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• To understand most important ideas in psychology, you need to understand how the mind is divided into parts that sometimes conflict. We assume that there is one person in each body, but in some ways we are each more like a committee whose members have been thrown together to do a job, but who often find themselves working at cross purposes.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Jobs, Ideas, Psychology

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• I guess for major film industry players a film is a money making devise, so using formulas assures them that their investment will have returns. A lot of big studio films are created by formulas and committees, stripping away any individuality or personality from the work so that they could appeal to most everyone on there planet but to no one in particular.

  Signe Baumane

  Player, Personality, Individuality

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The president has the right to select who he wants for the Supreme Court. He doesn't have to get it cleared from Congress, Senate or anybody... No president before this has come under this kind of scrutiny ... before the committee hearings even begin.

  Montel Williams

  President, Want, Hearing

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• Cinema informed my painting by the sheer geography - on locations, there is so much downtime. And when you're spending all this time creating art by committee, the concept of the singular voice is a pleasant antidote.

  Billy Zane

  Art, Voice, Creating

  Source: www.etonline.com

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