I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends with John Garfield, for instance. He was one of the only actors that refused to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee back when the Hollywood Ten blacklist was happening in the McCarthy period. I wish I could've been friends with Charlie Parker and played with him. That's my period. I feel real close to the '40s - and actually I was born in '37, so I was a kid singing on the radio in the '40s. But I always dreamed of going to big cities.
If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.
I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.
I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.
I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
I would rather deal with a tyrant any day than a committee. Committees, as a general rule, aren’t willing to take chances, which is why you have a committee in the first place — so you can share the blame.
It is time for us Arabs and Muslims to formulate a committee of wise persons to bear the responsibility of engaging with this new American century.
Congressional investigations. . . are still being held on the problem of unidentified flying objects and the problem is one in which there is quite a bit of interest. . . Since most of the material presented to the committee is classified, the hearings are never printed.
I'm going to help the committee regardless of any position I have. I will volunteer to be a summer intern.
One side thinks the president's request for war-making powers is too brazen and even reckless. The other side thinks it is too spineless and probably ineffectual. 'It does not seem to have resonated with anyone,' said Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine and a member of the Intelligence Committee. 'I haven't found any colleague who's been enthusiastic about it. '
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?
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.
New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.
The only, the only possibility would be if the Republicans are in the majority and they can offer me something that would be especially advantageous to Maine. Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair. ' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
I served on the Armed Services Committee for 18 years and we must lead, or the job won't get done, unfortunately, for our country.
What happens in committee if the committee functions, more often than not, not every time but more often than not, a bill comes out with bipartisan support.
The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.
The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.