Committee Quotes

#1. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is committed to policies that promote maximum employment and price stability, consistent with our mandate from Congress.

Janet Yellen

#2. Quite frankly, I'm a member of the investigative committee, one of the senior members of the panel. I don't take our investigative facts and information from a magazine or some article.

John Mica

#3. And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.

Bernard Cornwell

#4. Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.

Nick Rahall

#5. I was under the impression that werewolf packs were not meant to be run by committee."
"Yeah," I said. "But I dont want to be like all those other werewolves, you know?"
"Says the werewolf named Kitty."
"It's too late to change my name now," I grumbled.

Carrie Vaughn

#6. This person should not be directly connected with the President Ford Committee nor should he be seen as a member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party. He should be someone like Laird or Rogers Morton.

Robert Teeter

#7. A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.

Gordon R. Dickson

#8. The pinnacle of power in China is the nine-member Politburo Standing Committee, the tiny body that sets policy for the nation's 1.4 billion citizens.

Tom Clancy

#9. The American Jewish Committee has pioneered the German-Jewish-American dialogue.

Klaus Kinkel

#10. Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award." The other is "You want fries with that?".

Robin Williams

#11. Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods.

Thomas Menino

#12. It wasn't the type of CIA job you'd find an application for on Jobs/CIA.Gov. It was a deep black-ops organization that hadn't been to a Senate Committee meeting since the Reagan Administration, and even then it was falsely presented as a training program.

Jennifer Arnett

#13. What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?

George Steiner

#14. the representative committee,

Lao She

#15. Is there a God? Yeah, but there's not just one God. There's a whole lot of gods, because one God couldn't have possibly made so many mistakes all by Himself. This had to be done by committee.

John Leguizamo

#16. I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it was the first time we had done it since man walked on the moon. We had a $5 trillion surplus and we cut taxes.

John Kasich

#17. Putting a rheumatologist at the head of a committee that arguably was going to have more influence over brain research than any particular institution in the country at the time, I think a lot of people found surprising.

Steve Fainaru

#18. As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.

Melissa Bean

#19. After a couple of years of death by bureaucratic snu-snu (too many committee meetings, too many tedious IT admin jobs)

Charles Stross

#20. I hold no brief for Communists, but I believe in and will defend their right to act independently within the law. I question whether members of the committee are interested in defending our form of government or whether they are attempting to suppress political opinion at odds with their own.

Gregory Peck

#21. To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

Henry Spencer

#22. There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee ... This was all stuff that was previously known.

Robert Torricelli

#23. In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.

Andy Serkis

#24. 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.

Charles Bass

#25. At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice.

Chuck Klosterman

#26. 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

#27. The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.

Jane Harman

#28. People just want to hear some common sense ... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carol Moseley Braun

#29. The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Charles Tupper

#30. Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

#31. No other country in the world disenfranchises people who are released from prison in a manner even remotely resembling the United States. In fact, the United Nations Human Rights Committee has charged that U.S. disenfranchisement policies are discriminatory and violate international law.

Michelle Alexander

#32. I have decided to launch an Exploratory Committee to examine whether I should run for President in 2016.

Jim Webb

#33. A camel is a horse designed by committee.

Alec Issigonis

#34. Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.

Peter Agre

#35. If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws.

Mark Shields

#36. William "Boss" Tweed was in such thorough control in New York that he made money off of the report the committee printed after investigating him.

H.W. Brands

#37. The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America.

Jay Alan Sekulow

#38. In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.

Frank Church

#39. Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings.

Elliott Abrams

#40. of a total of 268) affixed their signatures to the Nineteen Articles.
It was indicated that the Draft Committee would meet within the year to review and, if necessary, revise the statement.

R.C. Sproul

#41. I have very strong views on TV. There's no diversity, there's no choice. Things are decided by committee.

John Lloyd

#42. Like a committee in a thieves' kitchen when someone has casually mentioned the law.

H.G.Wells

#43. Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#44. In every committee of twelve, one will love you and one will betray you.

Lyle E. Schaller

#45. Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.

John Bercow

#46. In 1940, then-Senator Harry Truman headed up a Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program. In the course of World War II, more than $15 billion in unnecessary and fraudulent defense spending was identified.

Bernie Sanders

#47. If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

Charles Kettering

#48. Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.

Arlen Specter

#49. Earlier today former Vermont Governor Howard Dean became the new head of the Democratic National Committee
no word on who will be the neck.

Amy Poehler

#50. Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

Milton Berle

#51. If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

Arthur Goldberg

#52. In his 2016 campaign, the American president used the slogan "America First," which is the name of a committee that sought to prevent the United States from opposing Nazi Germany.

Timothy Snyder

#53. 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

#54. You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister.

Tom A. Watson

#55. The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.

John Ensign

#56. It would be worth the while if in each town there were a committee appointed to see that the beauty of the town received no detriment. If we have the largest boulder in the county, then it should not belong to an individual, nor be made into door-steps.

Henry David Thoreau

#57. I put myself up for full professor, an act of such unprecedented and unmitigated arrogance that the committee approved it, thus effectively rooting me to the scene of the crime, too weighed down by tenure, rank, and salary to be marketable ever again.

Richard Russo

#58. If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

Ross Perot

#59. These diagnostic profiles like depression, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, it's half science and the other half is a committee of doctors bickering over what it should be, and it has changed. It's not precise like a diagnosis of tuberculosis would be very precise.

Temple Grandin

#60. Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy.

Guglielmo Marconi

#61. A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.

Robert A. Heinlein

#62. It began with meetings, five months before the Apollo 11 launch. The newly formed Committee on Symbolic Activities for the First Lunar Landing gathered to debate the appropriateness of planting a flag on the moon.

Mary Roach

#63. The best committee's a committee of one!

Naomi Mitchison

#64. Sometimes I think about dying. And then I wonder about going to hell. And then I think that if and when I go there, the place will be completely organized and run by lost souls, with a council and a works committee and an ethics panel, and I'll feel right at home.

Charles Sheffield

#65. It didn't help when Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael made his notorious comment to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: "The position of women in SNCC is prone.

Ariel Levy

#66. It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.

Martin Firrell

#67. Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.

Camille Paglia

#68. Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.

Bill Sienkiewicz

#69. The masculine heart needs a place where nothing is prefabricated, modular, nonfat, zip lock, franchised, on-line, microwavable. Where there are no deadlines, cell phones, or committee meetings. Where there is room for the soul.

John Eldredge

#70. Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

Abraham Lincoln

#71. I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder.

Alber Elbaz

#72. No negotiation is ever possible if you have to negotiate not only with the people in the room but also with some other committee in permanent session.

Jack Straw

#73. A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution.
[Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the forty-ninth A.N.C. National Conference, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 17 December 1994]

Nelson Mandela

#74. One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who dont understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.

Garrison Keillor

#75. In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.

Leon Trotsky

#76. Under a cold turkey strategy, at each policy meeting the Federal Open Market Committee would make its best guess about where it ultimately wants the funds rate to be and would move to that rate in a single step.

Ben Bernanke

#77. There have been a couple of instances prior to now where members of the House have filed resolutions calling for release of the sealed files which were developed during the course of our committee's investigation.

Louis Stokes

#78. And as the story unfolded before the Ervin committee, it began to take on the characteristics of a Russian novel. Someone we had never heard of suddenly emerged as an agent in activities that were almost inconceivable.

Elizabeth Drew

#79. I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#80. Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about what happened. That doesn't mean that at all times memories are telling us the absolute truth, but that the main source of who we are is that memory, flawed or not.

Tobias Wolff

#81. A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.

Vincent Bugliosi

#82. When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#83. Britain's Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens had lately reclassified herpes B into biohazard level 4, placing it in the elite company of Ebola, Marburg, and the virus that causes Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. National

David Quammen

#84. I think it's time ... that we reform Congress to the point where all public assistance comes in one single committee. One area where all public assistance can be located, and it will be easy to see all the duplications, all the waste, so much easier to see areas where fraud is running rampant.

Louie Gohmert

#85. But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey.

Jimmy Hoffa

#86. In practice I regarded prayer as somehow more spiritual than sitting on a committee, preaching as more anointed than plumbing. Only the revelation of Christ's Humanity infused vigor into my bloodless theoretical doctrine.

Mark Shea

#87. To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Robert A. Heinlein

#88. Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed.

Steve Buyer

#89. A single vision is more perfect than a committee vision because with everyone having their say, it becomes compromised.

Karl Pilkington

#90. This is my favorite story of the week. The Republican National Committee is in trouble after spending nearly $2,000 at a bondage club in Hollywood. You know what I call a Republican that spends a lot of money in a strip club? A Democrat.

Jay Leno

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

Charles Bass

#92. Your
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intervention, shall we say, has simplified things in the palace enormously. We no longer have to worry about Salmissra's whims and peculiar appetites. We rule by committee, and we hardly ever find it necessary to poison each other anymore. No one's tried to poison me for months.

David Eddings

#93. As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.

Nic Pizzolatto

#94. Safeguarding the interests of our Taiwan compatriots and expanding their well-being is the mainland's oft-repeated pledge and solemn promise of the new leaders of China's Communist Party central committee.

Xi Jinping

#95. Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.

Nancy Gibbs

#96. Also, the Federal Advisory Committee should be enlarged and reorganized. Members should be chosen for the broadest possible representation of the public interest, their main qualification: ability.

Wright Patman

#97. Conducted by the Draft Committee. The present text makes clear exactly what the Council affirmed and denied. Obviously, those who signed the articles do not necessarily concur in every interpretation advocated by the commentary. Not even the members of the Draft Committee

R.C. Sproul

#98. The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

Friedrich Engels

#99. If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.

Sam Ervin

#100. You get the benefit of the doubt because according to the Eternal Sun gossip committee, you're good as gold. They better be right, or I'll stick my boot up your ass so far it'll set up residency in your throat.

Elle Aycart