Famous Quotes & Sayings

emboldened by what they see as a compliant racing commission that will rubber-stamp whatever they want to do.

Brad Smith

Every time we make a change, we find that the Commission moves the goal post and demands another change.

Quite frankly, I question their value. I'm not sure how much the commission can absorb, because they're going to be getting a variety of viewpoints.

Professor Barrett is a leading and well-respected computer expert whose name was suggested to the Commission by Microsoft .

Lee H. Hamilton

Our sense is that the commission supports reform of the intelligence community, but we have come to no judgment about the nature of reform that we will recommend.

Hosni Mubarak

As I had promised for the presidential election, the upcoming legislative polls will also be free and fair and will take place under the supervision of the electoral commission and the judges,

The unsupervised and undocumented meetings between the trustee and Microsoft's adversaries encouraged by the commission violated the commission's own procedural safeguards as well as general principles of due process.

This degree of violence is completely unacceptable from a parliamentarian, but all the more so when he is the vice-president of a commission that is supposed to promote dialogue with the indigenous communities.

This commission showed far more compassion than one we've seen previously.

Sander Levin

This commission is going to have two-thirds congressional membership. It is going to be up to us to make it work. Give it a chance.

This is a military commission that is literally unbounded by the laws, Constitution and treaties of the United States.

You wouldn't want that person on the commission at all.

This is going to underscore the sense that we really have not been prepared. Everyone on the commission seems to say that we are safer, but not safe.

This is a tremendous project for Orangeburg County and the state of South Carolina. This is part of strategic initiative our County Council and Development Commission have been working on for years.

Marcus Aurelius

There is often a sin of omission as well as of commission

A common understanding has been reached. Despite these encouraging steps, it is important to note that the commission will ultimately judge the cooperation of the Syrian authorities on the merits of the information provided and the promptness with which its requests are being accommodated.

Generally, the Federal Highway Commission will only fund the minimum height.

Phyllis Schlafly

Do you really think that serving on the Texas Lottery Commission helps the resume of a Supreme Court nominee?

Defense Minister has been deeply angered over the issue and constituted a commission to probe it independently.

Dead men don't tell tales. We don't want a Lee Harvey Oswald here. We don't want an Oliver Stone movie. We don't want a Warren Commission report.

I've always been concerned about this dangerously cozy relationship between the joint commission and the hospital industry generally, and the individual hospitals that it looks at,

Thanks to the generous support from donors, including the European Commission and EU member states, at the moment we have commitments for about 50 percent of our needs through to December.

Michael Mori

It would be remiss of the commission to move forward before the Supreme Court makes a ruling, ... Unless, that is, they're really doing it for show.

The serious nature of the reported findings and allegations, coupled with the grave implications if these allegations are meritorious, compel me ... to refer these matters to the Department of Justice and to the Securities Exchange Commission for consideration.

The State Lands Commission showed leadership and set us firmly on the road toward a more sustainable future for our oceans.

This was an issue update on education. This was an e-mail that was sent out. It was a new, electronic way to get a message out. Actually, we look forward to some guidelines from the ethics commission on something that's totally new. No one has addressed what's OK with an e-mail, what's OK with a link to a Web site.

What I would like to see is the European Commission taking a more proactive stance instead of a wait-and-see approach.

We gave the commission facts, ... We went from criterion to criterion to criterion and proved them wrong at every point.

The whole thing was prejudiced from the beginning; it was all backward. They look at us like we were created to serve at the leisure and pleasure of the commission and I dispute that. It was the people that put us in there. They wanted an independent voice.

The work of this commission is far too important to have been hijacked by one polarizing and divisive figure.

There would be a cost for expenses of the commission, for commission staff, for computers, ... But it would be approximately half of the cost now because there would not be duplication.

The sale of the Archipelago brokerage subsidiary was obligated by an order of the Securities and Exchange Commission as a condition to Archipelago's acquisition of the Pacific Exchange, Inc., in September 2005.

The scope of the commission really is very broad. It deals with LNG, but in the whole Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We are hoping it sets some limits on where and how these facilities can be sited.