Famous Quotes / Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce: "QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the United States Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House; in the House of Representatives, of the Speaker and the devil."
Body | Chairman | Committee | Consists |
Deliberative | Devil | Finance | Having |
House | Members | Messenger | Number |
Quorum | Representatives | Senate | Speaker |
States | Sufficient | United | White |