118 Commission Quotes for You to Enjoy

All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death. Edwin M. Stanton

Death Will Before Military President Trial Punishment Shall Concealment Subject Escape Commission Persons Treated

Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience. Felix de Weldon

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I think the four major leagues ought to set up a joint commission - say, of retired judges - to rule on athletes who are accused of doing bad things away from the game. Then each league would retain its independence in determining what penalties their players should get for infractions committed within the sport. Frank Deford

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Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors. Fritz Kreisler

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The Federal Communications Commission licensed satellite radio to be a national-only radio service. Gene Green

Service Licensed Federal Commission Communications Radio Satellite

The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do. Gerard Debreu

Research Type Environment Optimal Commission Wanted

President Obama has ignored or dismissed proposals that would address our anti-competitive tax code and unsustainable trajectory of federal debt - including his own bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform - and submitted no plan for entitlement reform. Glenn Hubbard

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They're the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and they will not do that. They will not pull the trigger. Gray Davis

Will Energy Trigger Federal Commission Regulatory Pull

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services. Imran Khan

Government Accountability Independent Feel Audit Commission Should Services

We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse. Iris Apfel

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In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist. J. R. R. Tolkien

The fact to the matter is, we never developed a comprehensive strategy to deal with radical Islam. And the 9/11 commission said one of the things we must do is develop a global alliance to combat it. Jack Keane

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From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission. James Tobin

City Haven New Commission Plan Chairman Served

When 'Line of Duty' started on BBC2, there was a feeling that it couldn't ever become a big show because the BBC2 drama budget is much smaller, and a returning cop series would take away from the Stephen Poliakoff/David Hare stuff that they love to commission. Jed Mercurio

It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery. Jim Garrison

CIA Before Oswald Complete Complete Mystery Would About Remain Mystery Weeks Never Knew Particular Know Reached Message Contents Commission Six Interesting Certainly Warren Assassination

I chaired the 1982 Democratic Party Commission on Presidential Nominations that created certain automatic delegates to the Democratic convention - the 'superdelegates.' It was a good idea then, and it is still a good idea. Jim Hunt

Good Party Presidential Delegates Idea Democratic Democratic Party Still Commission Convention Automatic Then Created Certain Good Idea

I was born in Washington, D.C., where my father was working for the Federal Trade Commission, and my mom was editor for the National Council of Catholic Women, but my parents were simply awaiting my birth before moving back to their roots in Rhode Island to raise their family. Joanna Going

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We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service. John Bates Clark

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I must say, to be very honest about it, that I held in my mind during the life of the Commission, that there had been three shots and that a separate shot struck Governor Connally. John Sherman Cooper

Life Mind Three Say Must About Struck Had Been Governor Very Commission Shot Held Shots Separate Honest

It was determined, as shown in the report of the Commission, which I can read to you, but I know you are familiar with the report. It states there was disagreement on this issue, particularly as the subject was debated, that there were different opinions about it. John Sherman Cooper

The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution. Jose Ramos-Horta

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