#committee

Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

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Nobody ever built a statue to a committee. ↗

— Roger Stone

#committee #ever #nobody #statue

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

#broke #committee #company #ended #fate

Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee. ↗

— Ted Yoho

#cliff #coming #committee #did #hindsight

With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

#brow #brown #clean #committee #conventions

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. ↗

— Milton Berle

#committee #group #hours #keeps #loses

I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on. ↗

— Richard Rodney Bennett

#committees #composition #hated #i #music

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

#america #asking #basis #betrayal #committee

I do believe very much in movie as a one-man-show. I think that where I've watched movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it. ↗

— John le Carre

#been #believe #committee #dread #go

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee. ↗

— Fletcher Knebel

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