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
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“When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,—muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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)
“In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other’s affairs, who “come out” together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)