Each university should have a Young Scholars’ Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.
- Anatoly Chubais
Committees Quotes and Sayings
As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.
- Norman Lamm
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
Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
- George Will
Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism.
- Sidney Blumenthal
As southeast Texas’s only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I’m especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the region to create jobs and improve the area infrastructure.
- Nick Lampson
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
- C. Northcote Parkinson
Committee a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
- Fred Allen
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alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.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 Welch
And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.
- Stephen Breyer
During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations.
- Lucille Roybal Allard
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 Foster Bass
Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
- Katharine Whitehorn
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
- Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
- Arthur J. Goldberg