Famous quotes containing the words public, affairs and/or committee:
“Once, when lying in bed with no paper at hand, he began to sketch the idea for a new machine on the back of his wife’s nightgown. He asked her if she knew the figure he was drawing. “Yes,” she answered, “the figure of a fool.””
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.”
—Duc De Richelieu (1585–1642)
“A committee is an animal with four back legs.”
—John le Carré (b. 1931)