Top 555 Congressional Committees Quotes & Sayings

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

I also served on many government committees.

Indiana's ninth congressional district isn't historically known as a fount of congressional contributions. That said, if you look at my fundraising history, we've succeeded.

A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.

Committees do harm merely by existing.

An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line.

We should call editorials what they are: columns written by committees.

Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush.

If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.

I play in the congressional baseball game.

I work on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees to keep us safe at home and strong in the world.

I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.

Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments.

The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees.

I'm often asked by search committees for public and private universities to help them think about how to find their next president.

The term congressional hearing is an oxymoron. No congressional hearing is ever called to gather information. Rather, it is an exercise designed strictly for posturing, by people who have already made up their minds, looking for ammunition to support their positions.

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

President Bush bestowed the Congressional Medal on myself.

We do not need committees but we need commitment. The nation is already reeling under the burden of several committees formed in the last decade.

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.

With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.

When people are making up stories about Bob Mueller on Fox News and those get traction in congressional committees and in the White House, at a certain point, I've got to say no.

I am honored to serve on the Natural Resources and Budget Committees.

Avoid committees and consensus in developing big, distinctive business model advantages. Individuals have big, distinctive ideas; committees and consensus turn big, distinctive ideas into mundane ideas.

The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races.

I don't look like a normal congressional candidate.

You shouldn't have political action committees.

Living movements do not come out of committees.

They've done away with those committees. That shows the success of what the Soviets were able to do in this country.

Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking.

Most search committees use me.

It is well known that the Nobel Committees bring world opinion to a focus, and that fact still further enhances the prestige attaching to the Prizes.

The repealing and replacing of Obamacare is very complicated. It is what a White House and congressional leadership, serious White House and serious congressional leadership, should meet on and work on and figure out a strategy of, and it may work and it may not. Obviously not every administration gets things through, even when they have much larger majorities in congress and a much larger popular vote than Donald Trump had.

The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA.

There's a host of difficult issues here, and that's why when you mentioned at the top of the show that the committees were looking at this, that's where I think we should be going.

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

It should be mandatory that any tax breaks go through appropriate committees and be voted on separately by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

The thing that is different I think from the years ago, when I was covering the shutdown at the Clinton White House. Then, it was a different political landscape. At that point, a third of House Republicans in the 1995 shutdown were in congressional districts that had been won by Bill Clinton. 7 percent of House Republicans are in congressional districts that were won by Barack Obama shows you how much more partisan the whole country is. A lot of the bridges that used to be used to reach a deal when you needed to reach a compromise have been blown up in the past years.

Legacies, athletes, and favored racial minorities all receive preferential treatment from admissions committees to the exclusion of academically better-qualified students.

People in both parties from the congressional intelligence committees - all these co-opted officials who play cheerleader for spy agencies - go on these Sunday shows and they say: "Snowden was a traitor. He works against Americans. He works for the Chinese. Oh, wait, he left Hong Kong - he works for the Russians."

Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

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

Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.

I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and the Sons of Liberty did in Boston was spread the word about the abuses of the British. They had Committees of Correspondence that got the word out to the colonies. We need Committees of Correspondence now, and we are getting them.

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.

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

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

You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.

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.

The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.

I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

The Internet is a very exciting way of doing material that's uncensored, and doesn't have to go through TV committees, and people aren't telling you what you can and can't do.