Famous Quotes & Sayings

We want to get a feel for our membership. Actually, the committee is very upset with the company's latest and final offer. Our intent is to go out there and educate them on what's happening.

It would make sense to consider, and this is only under consideration, a committee that would be focused on the subject matter rather than on a corner of it within the jurisdiction of one of our committees,

Harry Reid

I urge the White House to reconsider this initial decision, and to work cooperatively with Judiciary Committee Democrats so that the Senate can do its job more effectively,

The vice president of the United States is always a big draw. There will be people who want to see him and want to support the party, and this is a year where having some friends in the Republican National Committee is gonna be important.

The rise in output prices ... will not ruffle the doves unduly when the Monetary Policy Committee meets next month to decide on interest rates.

The School Committee withdrew that request, ... We will manage within our own budget.

DeLoss Dodds

I've served on many committees with Rudy. And I'm still waiting for an opportunity to speak.

Twice now, successive governors, after their election and inauguration, have fired directors of the Committee of Consumer Services,

We're planning on taking the next three or four months to explore all of the options. Possibly those options can change, but the committee has done a lot of work and this is where we are at.

We've been technically out of compliance with the Democratic National Committee rules for 20 years, but it's always been the spirit of being first that they have supported,

Arlen Specter

I've been searching for a way that we might have President Clinton's side of the matter in a professional way, and I'm continuing to explore that. The committee is not disposed to inviting him because of the sensitivity of inviting a former president and the potential for a circus-like atmosphere,

I've been on this committee before here at CSU and twice when I was at Idaho, and this is as good a group as I've seen.

Paul Casey

I've been elected nine times, ... I've seen and done most things that a representative can do. I went from a freshman rep to chairing one of the most elite committees ? the Joint Committee on Taxation.

We welcome this opportunity to have initial discussions with the committee, following their vote to proceed with an inquiry, and we are interested in hearing from the committee about its plans and procedures for going forward,

The intelligence community goes around the authorizing committees because they don't have control over the money. You need a subcommittee that focuses exclusively on intelligence to have robust oversight.

Kofi Annan

The inquiry committee has ripped away the curtain, and shone a harsh light into the most unsightly corners of the organization,

The (Federal Open Market) Committee will more than likely remain on hold, unless economic developments force its hand.

The feeling is that those meetings have been sufficiently good and constructive that they have ... superseded committee meetings.

The fascinating thing about the committee is that in the final analysis, you have to exercise your own subjective judgment. It's so easy to just latch onto numbers. You could have watched a team play whose numbers really don't truly illustrate how good it is.

Indeed, it may only have been a reluctance to surprise the markets that stopped the committee from cutting rates (last week).

Sibel Edmonds

In March 2002 I took this issue to the Senate Judiciary Committee and also I filed it with the Department of Justice Inspector General's office.

I'm not a committee person, but I think we're good (for a spot). Hopefully we'll be in there.

I know what the committee looks for and I thought we had good top-50 wins, they look for that. I think those wins were huge with the committee.

P. J. O'Rourke

The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.

The No No Committee is concerned and will be reviewing whether the commissioners have violated Texas law.

Arlen Specter

These tapes, which the committee will put on display, really nail down the case, ... It comes out of President Clinton's mouth that these funds, this soft money, was used to promote his candidacy. He says that. And now we know positively there's been a violation of the federal election code.

Once the committee has gone through all the correspondence a directive will be issued.

After talking to the different school committees and studying their responses, we feel we can't endorse any one school over all the others.

It's a promising start. The committee is striking a cooperative tone. We hope it continues.

It really depends on the committee and the preferences of the committee members.

Tony Parker

It proves that the committee is Anglo-Saxon. They prefer the English.

It is truly the opinion of this monitoring committee that Michelle could win the Olympics.

Henry Hyde

I have pledged to try to finish this inquiry by the end of the year, ... However, if we continue to revisit this issue over and over again, the Committee may be delayed in completing its important work.