A Central Executive Committee is a governing body with executive power of various parties, governments, or private organizations:
- Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union, the highest legislative body in the Soviet Union in 1922–1938
- Central Executive Committee of Kuomintang, a political party in Taiwan
- Central Executive Committee of People's Action Party, ruling party in Singapore
- All-Russian Central Executive Committee
- All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee
- Central Executive Committee of Soviets (Councils) of Romanian Front, Black See Fleet, and Odessa Oblast, known better as Rumcherod
- Central Executive Committee of Soviets (Councils) of Sibiria, known better as Centrosibir
Famous quotes containing the words central, executive and/or committee:
“In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a “dictator” substitutes himself for the central committee.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)
“One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a sound currency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.”
—Katharine Whitehorn (b. 1926)