Quotes of: Commission Keyword

In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.

Brad Holland

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

Camille Claudel

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

Shirley Chisholm

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are.

William Scranton

I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone.

Richard MacDonald

We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law.

Russ Feingold

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

Louise Brown

One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation.

Louis Stokes

It might shock you, but I haven't been to that many fashion shows, and I'd never done a commissioned piece for a fashion house.

Mike D

In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.

Tim Holden

Everything I commission - whether it is for me or for a client's home or for a hotel or office - is absolutely unique to that job. I have everything made, or I find vintage and antique pieces at markets and auctions.

Kelly Wearstler

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

Samuel Butler

These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.

Caleb Cushing

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

James Otis

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Erich Maria Remarque

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

James Tobin

By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world.

Martin Parr

I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.

F. W. de Klerk

[pretending the Nevada Gaming Commission is racist] Frank: They might as well call it whitejack!

Ocean's Eleven

Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.

Roland Allen

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