I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.
Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.
I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations.
I've served on the International Relations Committee.
I will term-limit myself probably before I would have enough seniority to get a committee chairmanship.
I don't talk about my politics. I am registered as an independent.
My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.