Committees Quotes (1094 Quotes)

We would be much better off to agree on a wise and relevant platform plank and do so in platform committee. I hope that we can do that. If we can't, then possibly we'll have to take this to the floor. And then we'll see who has the votes.

In looking at Ohio State and Maryland, it was very, very close. Maryland was one of the teams the committee looked at very carefully in terms of consideration for a No. 1 seed. In our final judgment, two of the things that worked against Maryland were the four losses and it did not bring quite the strength of schedule as the other teams.

Congressional support for the C-17 remains strong in all four Defense committees. We've provided cost information to the Air Force at their request for options as high as 60 additional C-17s.

In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a ''dictator'' substitutes himself for the central committee.

I was delighted that they were selected. It was a unanimous selection of the dinner committee. I think they're very deserving and exhibited tremendous compassion and bravery and initiative for what they did last spring in response to the tsunami disaster in their homeland of Sri Lanka.

has an obligation to answer tough questions from the committee about whether his views have changed and whether he would advance a particular ideological position that is contrary to decades of legal precedent.

It's terribly disappointing that we are still at this stage. Most other states have gone ahead and done these studies. And there is significant anecdotal information that racial profiling does exist - and we still have not gotten a bill out of committee in Virginia.

I don't see how they can give it to anyone else. I think the committee, based on the criteria, is obligated to give it us.

The response from the committee was outstanding. Everyone wanted to be involved.

They will set a date to come here to Quincy so that our steering committee can do a presentation. We should probably hear whether we're approved or not sometime in early spring, maybe March or April. Once we do hear of the approval, we'll be going through a refining process.

This verdict is wrong ... and according to the National Olympic committee is not acceptable. We will appeal the decision.

People at the White House need to know that the chances of our getting a (budget cut) bill moving out of my committee are very difficult if we don't get this behind us,

I put together a committee to review everything, so I wasn't in a little room all by myself making all these plans. They worked for 18 months on the draft, so it wasn't fly-by-night.

It does matter. Not just to the U.S. Olympic Committee. It matters to the American public. It matters to our broadcast partners. Now, to us as an Olympic Committee, it is not the only thing that matters.

And I encouraged them to start a strike committee.

When they (the committee) started, I noticed they didnt have any students on the committee,

Iraq has regained its independence and held democratic elections for the first time in its history, in order to elect a National Iraqi committee.

We will have an oversight committee that can work as a recommending body, work with me and work with the board, and help us do the things that we want to see done in the Priority Two list. The committee will help us get deeper into that list with the money that we have left after we do the Priority One projects.

The faculty know people from all over. The more faculty on the committee, the more likely someone will know someone who knows a candidate.

I appreciate the work that went into the ad hoc Discipline Committee. There's a lot of work that needs to be done, and it should continue.

I'm always there for Pete. Major League Baseball has created this Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. I don't think he would mind if the commissioner said no, if the committee voted no.

The fact it's repeatedly passed Chairman Pombo's committee would advocate for a vote, as would the fact the CNMI is the only U. S. territory without nonvoting representation.

The members of the committee will be knowledgeable and will know what is expected of the program and will help identify the new coach.

Now that Roberts' nomination has been reported out of committee, we strongly urge senators to vote their conscience and reject his nomination when it reaches the floor. The stakes are too high and the consequences too great to gamble.

Gretzky will take the heat. If you're on that committee, you're doing what Gretzky tells you.

It will take at least one week for the Justice Department to arrive at a final conclusion on this matter. Therefore, the committee does not anticipate taking any actions with respect to Mrs. Rich for at least one week.

The governor thinks it's a very important issue to be in D.C. to testify before the committee on all of the actions Texas took between Hurricane Katrina and Rita and the financial impact those actions had on our state and continue to have on our state.

The Democratic National Committee is virtually 100 percent anti-firearms ownership, and the Republican National Committee stands on the side of the freedom.

Of course. I mean, I was dead flat wrong. ... I'm on the Intelligence Committee, and as soon as we did our report on weapons of mass destruction, I realized that I had just been living off this information, this false information. And I went down to the floor of the Senate and I said, Look, I'm wrong. I would never vote for a war knowing what I know now.

We cannot make exceptions unless the committee decides you are either in the three mile radius or you are out. There is always going to be somebody that's just outside the boundary.

I think that reshaping the committee the way I did and getting Pat Bowlen and Jerry Richardson to become directly involved the way that Dan Rooney and Wellington Mara were in past negotiations is a real positive, ... It shows that we are serious and determined to reach out across the table, and hopefully that will be the beginning of a deal.

It is a wonderful job the committee volunteers have done getting the downtown refurbished after the hurricanes.

We've been somewhat deliberate in our movement with this, because we have kind of used I don't want to say a committee approach but we've used a kind of a community approach where we've gotten involvement from a lot of different people in groups associated with the university.

It may be that the members of the committee feel more tempted when they have met someone, heard them talk and been impressed.

This committee is basically under control of the White House. It's an unprecedented bout of political pressure from the White House.

The Committee should positively contribute to the path of reform and dialogue ensuring that all ethnic communities feel they have a political and economic stake in the country's development.

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

We think that it goes a long ways toward bringing a greater element of fairness into the committee process.

The secretary and the State Department believe that questions of the committee should be answered. Secretary Powell is answering requests for information, the way that we do, the way that any American citizen does.

This is the first time the board is hearing this information. When there are budget constraints, it's never an easy thing to consider. But a committee or task force, I'm not sure that's a bad idea.

I don't know where you were, but we've had more hearings, open and closed, on this one subject than any other issue that has been before this committee,

There were very tough decisions, and it was heartbreaking at times. Sometimes a great organization would apply for something that wasn't eligible. Or an application would be so full of jargon, the committee couldn't understand what they were asking for.

Everyone knew they had to come together. We knew we had to step up and compensate for the fire and energy that Scotty brings. We filled his role by committee.

The goal is still to pick the 34 best at-large teams and to seed and balance the 65-team bracket. But this committee is going to face some very unusual challenges because there is so much gridlock at the top and the middle of some of these conferences.

My own belief is that the ground rules that come out (of the committee) will not be troublesome or problematic for the Buffalo Bills.

I'm not sure if it will or not it is up to each individual member of Congress to weigh, ... I've seen some of the reaction of some of my colleagues in Washington especially some of those on the Judiciary Committee. It does not appear to have made a big difference.

I hope when the committee takes a look at teams that it's not just comparing two Mountain West Conference teams. I hope we're being compared to anyone else in the country.

That's what's wrong with the legislative process, that one person can bury a bill in committee and deny the Legislature the right to even vote on it. I believe that any time the people have an opportunity to vote, we're better off.

The position of the Republican National Committee is simple We will not tolerate fraud we will not tolerate intimidation we will not tolerate suppression. No employee, associate or any person representing the Republican Party who engages in these kinds of acts will remain in that position.

Ken Mehlman, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, who has made reaching out to black voters a priority, put it simply. We're going to work with them, ... This disaster showed how important it is that we do these things.