Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is the fire commission taking the lead and the town government taking a supporting role.

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.

Joseph Stiglitz

I told the commission that offering the two versions of Windows without a price difference was not a level playing field.

Marcus Aurelius

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

The report should have legal force. The materials of the parliamentary commission must be passed to the investigative organs.

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.

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.

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,

There had to be a different way of recognising and paying commissions, and now the life companies will be taking the risk of policy continuation by funding commission streams,

We want a temporary ban. The proposal of the Commission today will be for one month so we have the time for further studies and research,

We're very much hoping the commission doesn't reopen the noise rule, and would be surprised in many ways if they do.

Brad Smith

You have to sit and wonder if it wouldn't have been better to stay with that rather than the judge forcing the commission to go back and write a 96-page rule.

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.

Scott Johnson

We're striving to be more consistent with our decisions. People should be able to know what to expect when they come to the commission. Before, the only thing the commission was consistent about was inconsistency.

There is a lot of work being done in non-census years, ... Would the commission have a full-time staff?

The reason highly abusive governments flock to the commission is to prevent condemnation of themselves and their kind, and most of the time they succeed. If you're a thug, you want to be on the committee that tries to condemn thugs.

Jeff Johnson

The operative word in Public Service Commission is 'public.' And, for most of our members, they have a pretty strong impression the PSC is too attendant to the needs of the utility companies and not common citizens. People are concerned about how to make ends meet.

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.

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.

Jacques Chirac

Is it normal for the commission to be disinterested in a problem? ... This is one of the reasons that explains the current rejection of Europe. It is a problem that must be looked at.

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.