Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dead men don't tell tales. We don't want a Lee Harvey Oswald here. We don't want an Oliver Stone movie. We don't want a Warren Commission report.

Jacques Chirac

Is it normal for the commission to be disinterested in a problem? ... This is one of the reasons that explains the current rejection of Europe. It is a problem that must be looked at.

This was an issue update on education. This was an e-mail that was sent out. It was a new, electronic way to get a message out. Actually, we look forward to some guidelines from the ethics commission on something that's totally new. No one has addressed what's OK with an e-mail, what's OK with a link to a Web site.

We're very much hoping the commission doesn't reopen the noise rule, and would be surprised in many ways if they do.

We will not have any role in its work as we want the commission to be really independent and free of any form of government intervention.

Jyoti Basu

Let (the) Election Commission do whatever it likes, but we are going to win this time also.

We need consumer-oriented people on the PSC, ... I have demonstrated that commitment over the years and look forward to talking with the people of Public Service Commission District No. 5 about my experience and ideas I have for the future.

I found her to be just a really good commission member and embody what the commission is all about.

David Vitter

We need a Katrina reconstruction commission headed by a no-nonsense, nonpolitical, businessman manager so that we all have something lasting to show for this spending,

Cynthia McKinney

The 9/11 Omission: Did the Commission Get it Wrong?

John Poindexter

The 9/11 Commission is identifying the exact problems that we were trying to get technology to solve. So I keep pushing the idea.

While the documents provided do not include the direct correspondence between the Commission and its technical experts, they show that the Commission, the trustee, and Microsoft's adversaries were secretly collaborating throughout the fall of 2005 in a manner inconsistent with the Commission's role as neutral regulator and the Trustee's role as independent monitor.

When the commission returned its report, most people focused on the second one, because it's the most coherent.

I was trying to tell the commission that the issue had not been really defined well enough to be ready for the president.

We're dealing with a suspect whose description is pretty general, a suspect who was not recognized by the surviving victims, and a suspect who, apparently, made no statement during the commission of his horrible crime,

We don't stand for that here. Whether the racing commission suspends him for 90 days or 900 days, we threw him out and we won't let him come back.

Nancy White

We don't see a problem that requires the commission to tell us how many poles should be inspected each year, for a period of years, and how those poles should be inspected.

Megan Smith

I think open source is an evolutionary idea for humanity, this idea of transparency. It played out for us in the technology world, but it also played out with the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission and Wikipedia.

Iceland will also now be able to vote in the commission as part of the pro-whaling bloc, which will make the conservation-minded nations' task all the more difficult,

Nelson Mandela

I am accusing the truth commission of being abused and not performing the task which it was supposed to perform,

Anthony Principi

I am proud of the recommendations the commission submitted to the president, ... We reached our decisions through an open, fair, non-partisan process.

Sebastian Coe

I am particularly delighted that so many of the members of the evaluation commission are on this team. They already have a great insight about our plans, aspirations and visions.

Haley Barbour

I don't want to stake out a position until I at least give the Gaming Commission the courtesy of hearing what their recommendations are,

He's in good position to backchannel with the Senate, being vice-chairman of the Commission on Appointments and head of the house CA panel.

I can confirm that the European Commission has received the complaints and will examine them carefully.

Jimmy Carter

In 1988, there was no doubt that the election was shot through with fraud. In 1994, there was tremendous improvement. In 1996, the major parties got together and helped to evolve a new electoral law that made an independent commission to conduct the whole election,

The commission has noted the decree with concern.

The commission does not look at applications in isolation.

The commission always has to consider the least-cost option.

Louis Stokes

Now the interesting thing about the movie is that many of the questions it raised about the Warren Commission and its investigation were all investigated by our committee 13 years ago. We published our findings in 27 volumes of information and evidentiary material.

Until a commission is sanctioned to sift through all these ideas and coalesce it into a single vision, I don't think people will pay much attention.

Our independent trustee, who is advising the Commission and who was suggested to us by Microsoft, Professor Neil Barrett, has told us the document is, to quote, 'totally useless'.

Andrew Bernstein

Our group is trying to convince the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) to make its deregistration rules more flexible.