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I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

~Bob Graham

Topics: Background Chair Committee Had Intelligence Last National National Security Security Two Years

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I was in high school in 1953 when the Committee of One Million circulated a petition urging that Red China - one third of the world's population - be excluded from the United Nations. And I remember I refused to sign it, at 14 or 15 years old.

~Brian Dennehy

Topics: China Committee Excluded High High School Million Nations Old Petition Population Red Refused Remember School Sign Third United United Nations Urging World Years I Remember

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When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands.

~Brian Mulroney

Topics: Appointed Because Bureaucracy Cabinet Committee Environment Major Minister Ottawa Planning Priorities Sent Signals Status Through Understands Were

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We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.

~Brian Mulroney

Topics: Approach Cabinet Committee Created Did Environment Environmental Every Fact Government Implications Initiatives Made New Review Something Something New Successful Sustained Think Us Year I Think

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One of things I have always been open to is making policy in the Senate Commerce Committee.

~Brian Schatz

Topics: Always Been Commerce Committee Making Open Policy Senate Things

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Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?

~Burt Lancaster

Topics: Anything Committee More Than

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When I was up in Washington state, I always thought, 'I'm going to go to Los Angeles where films are made and stories are told, and they're going to love me and welcome me with open arms.' But, there was no welcoming committee.

~Byron Howard

Topics: Always Angeles Arms Committee Films Go Going Los Los Angeles Love Love Me Made Me Open Open Arms State Stories Thought To Love Up Washington Washington State Welcome Welcoming Where

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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

~C. Northcote Parkinson

Topics: Bloom Committee Committees Dies Flowers Grows Mechanical Nature Organic Other Plant Rather Root Seed Structure Takes Than Turn Which Will

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People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

~Carol Moseley Braun

Topics: Bear Bring Committee Common Common Sense Diplomatic Experience Finance First Government Hear History International Just Local Local Government Mention National People Senate Sense Some State State Government Want Woman

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The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.

~Charles Bass

Topics: Acquired Acquisition Although Been Century Chinese Committee Found Had Many Military More Over Past Quarter Seven Targeted Technologies Than Them Years

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