Foreign Relations Committee

Famous quotes containing the words foreign, relations and/or committee:

    “When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “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 (1909–1993)