Famous quotes containing the words commission decided, commission and/or decided:
“Yesterday the Electoral Commission decided not to go behind the papers filed with the Vice-President in the case of Florida.... I read the arguments in the Congressional Record and cant see how lawyers can differ on the question. But the decision is by a strictly party voteeight Republicans against seven Democrats! It shows the strength of party ties.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities as well as those of other people will keep a man from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing.”
—Samuel Butler (18351902)
“I cannot say to a person who suffers injustice, Wait. Perhaps you can. I cant. And having decided that I cannot urge caution I must stand with him.”
—Sandra Casey Cason (b. c. 1939)