#committees

I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them. ↗

— Mark Shields

#advocate #any #bridge #build #committees

All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean that groups of men are vacuums. Great big empty nothings. They say we can't visualize a total nothing. Hell, sit at any committee meeting. The point is only who chooses to fill that nothing. It's a tough battle. The toughest. It's simple enough to fight any enemy, so long as he's there to be fought. But when he isn't. . . ↗

— Ayn Rand

#collectives #committees #incompetency #nothingness #men

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems. ↗

— Alvar Aalto

#city #committee #committees #dealing #every

Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#another #beyond #committees #department #did

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#buying #committees #decisions #each #fundamental

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless. ↗

— Walter Legge

#arts #committees #convinced #i #i am

First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#committees #communist #congressional #conspiracy #first

Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#committees #deciding #established #even #film

As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#art #arts #commission #committees #daring

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