Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Smith

Every time we make a change, we find that the Commission moves the goal post and demands another change.

There's no pressure being put by the IOC. We welcome the inquiry commission set up the Austrians. It will help shed light on the situation.

What happens in the states too often is that when the ethics commission oversees the Legislature, and the Legislature gets mad at them, they cut their budget.

What the commission searched for are recommendations for Mississippi's renewal that are sensible, doable and truly make a difference to our citizens' lives.

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.

The credibility of the Election Commission has been seriously undermined, ... If there is one important lesson of the elections, it is: The Election Commission must be thoroughly overhauled.

Alexis Herman

We want to at least create the framing of a consensus position on the part of the commission members,

John Kasich

What I fear most about a commission is compromise, ... Because compromise means we lose.

The Preparatory Commission held a total of four sessions, the last of which took place just under two years after its creation, from 31 January to 14 February 1967.

Those elected officials addressed the BRAC commission directly, and really showed that strong support for the military existed in Montana.

Andris Piebalgs

We are doing our job ... and we will continue to do this. The Commission should also look upon how the market works.

Harry Reid

Let's put good people on the independent commission and take politics out. Let's give it real power, and let's go to work,

Jyoti Basu

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

David Swanson

Lee's commission to monitor the treatment of prisoners in US custody? Jane was elsewhere.

Many of these recommendations proposed by the 9/11 commission one year ago might have made a difference in saving lives and preventing loss of lives in this hurricane.

Many people will also want to commission their own valuations or surveys before proceeding - which will make the packs partly redundant.

Several companies have expressed their concerns to the Commission concerning Microsoft's Vista operating system.

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.

But the Commission itself would be able to waive that, and in this kind of a situation, might well provide some kind of a relief.

From those few pending questions which the Commission would be called upon to solve at its fourth session, the most important one was the entry into force of the treaty.

Steve Swallow

If a commission comes in for tuba and gorilla, she'll write a piece for tuba and gorilla, and it'll come out sounding like her. I think the humor in her music is ... like her thumbprint. And I would have to say that extends into her life away from music as well. I think it would be impossible for her to remain somber for more than a few minutes at a stretch.

I would have refused a mandate at a commission of inquiry that was investigating the program of another government.

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

Greece has two months in which to inform the commission of the measures it intends to take to comply with the decision.

Generally, the Federal Highway Commission will only fund the minimum height.

Bill Richardson

My initial view is positive, ... but the Federal Trade Commission does a very good oversight role of ensuring that consumers are protected.

John Breaux

None of us on the commission are running again.

I think the Securities and Exchange Commission better look at this because what you've got is prior misstatement,

People have to be paid and they're either paid by commission or other investment management fee,

Siim Kallas

Some of the NGOs receiving funds from the commission describe on their Web site one of their main tasks as 'lobbying the commission.

That commission has done some damn dirty things. I wouldn't put it past them. I know I'm going to be there.

Eliot Spitzer

My office, while committed to working with the Securities and Exchange Commission in our investigation of the mutual fund industry, will not be party to settlements that fail to protect the interests of investors and let the industry off with little more than a slap on the wrist,

Haley Barbour

Local people have to make the decision, ... The purpose of this commission is not to impose decisions on you. It's to illuminate the choices.