#committee

If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#country #ever #live #run #you

A committee is an animal with four back legs. ↗

— John le Carre

#back #committee #four #legs

We have investigative staff who are charged by law and this committee under the Constitution of the United States has a responsibility, taxpayers' money, and an agency which we fund from the government, they bought weapons, we believe and we think that - I don't know who did what. ↗

— John Mica

#believe #bought #charged #committee #constitution

I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden. ↗

— Clifford Irving

#became #chairman #committee #got #i

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

— Charles Kettering

#committee #get #idea #kill #want

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

#achieve #am #assure #committee #confirmed

If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#colleagues #committee #confident #confirmed #contribution

By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee. ↗

— Rob Zombie

#by the time #committee #done #else #gate

It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#already #among #anything #assimilation #bill

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#agendas #amount #committee #could #fill