Quotes having the keyword Committees
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.
by Dorothy Day (Activist, American , born in 1897) keywords: before, committees, communist, congressional, conspiracy, first, nor, remembered, speak, testified, works , written
And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.
by Milos Forman (Director, Czechoslovakian , born in 1932) keywords: because, committee, committees, control, controlled, everybody, everything, how, know, member, person, placed, says, some, their, then , think
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.
by Hans Frank (Public Servant, German , born in 1900) keywords: academy, advisory, also, background, committees, fading, german, gradually, idea, into, legal, reich, reichstag, replace, should , which
A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.
by Herman Kahn (Scientist, American , born in 1922) keywords: attention, buying, committees, decisions, each, fundamental, give, government, important, individual, less, make, matters, number, suit, surprising, than, will , would
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.
by Serge Lang (Mathematician , born in 1927) keywords: attention, bring, cannot, committees, community, congressional, count, own, police, press, problems, scientific , their
I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.
by Walter Legge (Businessman, British , born in 1906) keywords: am, arts, committees, convinced , useless
Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.
by Ernest Mandel (Author, Belgian , born in 1923) keywords: call, committees, conditions, councils, crises, highest, level, only, organization, popular, revolutionary, say, soviet, them, type, under, want, which , workers
As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.
by Gavin Newsom (Politician, American , born in 1967) keywords: appropriate, art, arts, commission, committees, daring, full, fully, mayor, professional, public, range, selection, support, traditional , will
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.
by David Ogilvy (Businessman, American , born in 1911) keywords: advertisements, advertising, allowed, committees, create, criticize, messy, much, never, product, see, should, television, them , today
If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (Historian, American , born in 1917) keywords: begins, committees, confronting, conscience, courage, everything, himself, his, ideas, individual, intellectual, life, matters, mind, moral, must, our, own, produced, rarely, room, survive, these, things , vision
I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.
by Mark Shields (Journalist, American , born in 1937) keywords: acquainted, advocate, any, bridge, build, committees, communicating, effective, effort, fully, going, herself, himself, interested, issues, know, legislator, meet, them , think
Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding.
by Andrzej Wajda (Director, Polish , born in 1926) keywords: better, committees, deciding, established, even, film, funding, separate, state, two , were