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"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."
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"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours."
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"And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee."
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"There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee... This was all stuff that was previously known."
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"I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president."
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"A committee is an animal with four back legs."
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"Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents."
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"Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films."
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"My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee."
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"They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee."
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"Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?"
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"The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art."
Nature
"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
Communication
"If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage."
Man
"Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?"
Heart
"A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought."
Thought
"I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top."
Man
"Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?"
Humor
"Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape."
Chance
"Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise."
Politics
"One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal."
Alimentary
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