Congressional Committee Quotes

#1. Gary Condit is on the Congressional committee for Homeland Security. They make the guy responsible for Homeland Security who is the guy no one would feel secure going home with.

Jay Leno

#2. All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.

Robert W. Welch Jr.

#3. Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation - the backup to everything it does.

M. Stanton Evans

#4. I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Howard Fast

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

Charles Frankel

#6. What does it say about the college coed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex?

Rush Limbaugh

#7. The Air Force had put out a secret order for its pilots to capture UFOs. For the last six months we have been working with a congressional committee for investigating official secrecy concerning proof that UFOs are real machines under intelligent.

Donald Keyhoe

#8. Alec looked horrified, as if she'd asked him to put on a tutu and execute a perfect pirouette.

Cassandra Clare

#9. Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.

Thomas Carlyle

#10. The great allure of government programs in general for many people is that these programs allow decisions to be made without having to worry about the constraints of prices, which confront people at every turn in a free market.

Thomas Sowell

#11. Light and Darkness. One cannot exist without the other. There is no true Master, without the power of balance.

Luis Marques

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

Tom Coburn

#13. Congressional investigations ... are still being held on the problem of unidentified flying objects and the problem is one in which there is quite a bit of interest ... Since most of the material presented to the committee is classified, the hearings are never printed.

William Hanes Ayres

#14. Fair Trade is all about improving lives, but we don't do that through charity - there is no hand out in the Fair Trade movement. People are solving their own problems through Fair Trade.

Paul Rice

#15. E-mails are the new herpes: You never get rid of them.

Christopher Buckley