committee Quotes

“Their ideas reached no farther than to give the general government the five per centum impost, and the regulation of trade. When it was agitated in Congress, in a committee of the whole, this was all that was asked, or was deemed necessary. Since that period, their views have extended much farther. Horrors have been greatly magnified since the rising of the Convention. ”

“You somehow knew were you were then. I don’t even know who the people are these days...I expect it’s all done by committees, dear.”