National Commission

National Commission may refer to:

  • National Commission for Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes
  • National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples
  • National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons
  • National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
  • National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse
  • National Commission for Minorities
  • National Commission on Population
  • National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research
  • National Commission on Resources for Youth
  • National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling
  • National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
  • National Commission for Women
  • Baseball's National Commission

Famous quotes containing the words national and/or commission:

    “All experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to support many incompetent men; for such is the favoritism and nepotism always prevailing in the purlieus of these establishments, that some incompetent persons are always admitted, to the exclusion of many of the worthy.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don’t want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.”
    —Marian Wright Edelman (20th century)