Membership Criteria Quotes

Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!

The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards.

Why should someone be allowed to remain a voting member of the Academy if they are no longer active in the industry?

If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.

We are an ideological grass-roots group, and we use our faith to pick members.

Although advertised as 'invite only', it has been reported by Forbes Council members and invitees that this 'invite' came with a membership fee.

If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them.

Turkey wants to be treated by the same standards as other countries. If you compare us to some other newly accepted EU members our performance, especially in terms of the economy, is much better.

A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

Nowhere is it written that NATO had to accept certain countries. All that would have been required to refrain from doing so was the political will. But people didn't want to.

The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded, and then examined by savage Inquisitors, and then-probably-thrown out on the garbage heap. Well, no, it's not as bad as that; but we certainly don't want anybody who chooses to apply. Would you do it yourself, if you were on the Committee of a Club? The O.T.O. is a serious body, engaged on a work of Cosmic scope. You should question yourself: what can I contribute?

Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement.

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.

No country can become an E.U. member state if it introduces the death penalty.

The CWC is a professional organization for professional writers. Non-published writers are welcome as associate members.

MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.