States House Committee

Famous quotes containing the words states, house and/or committee:

“The one who first states a case seems right, until the other comes and cross-examines.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 18:17.

“For my father, who used to sit, hour after hour, night after night, outside our house in Africa, watching the stars “Well,” he would say, “if we blow ourselves up, there’s plenty more where we came from!””
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)

“A committee is an animal with four back legs.”
—John le Carré (b. 1931)