#committee

We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart. ↗

— Mark Thomas

#clever #committees #i #interest #people

At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now. ↗

— David R. Brower

#atomic energy #committee #days #energy #having

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

— John Ensign

#committee #control #out #senate #spending

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent. ↗

— Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#committee #consist #men #should #three

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work. ↗

— Alan Bullock

#committees #democracy #making #speeches #work

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 would not reconsider the nuclear cuts. The appropriations committee did due process in looking at where there was the ability to cut some spending and that's what we did and now it's time to look forward to fiscal year '12. ↗

— Joe Heck

#appropriations #committee #cut #cuts #did

It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have windows, and not fall over. ↗

— Max Barry

#committees #humour #architecture

This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored to save their amendments for the floor. Then, when we got here, we were told no amendments could be accepted. ↗

— Russ Feingold

#been #committee #could #floor #got

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