The last thing members of the committee want to do is pass…

We do not want another committee, we have too many already. What we want is a man of sufficient stature to hold the allegiance…

— David Spangler

Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft…

— Gary Miller

I think the politics have gotten better in the United States, which makes it easier to pass legislation, budgets and treaties.

— Jamie Dimon

I had been involved in animal welfare groups, but DDAL presented an opportunity to actually create and pass legislation aimed at issues which really…

— Doris Day

I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.

— Andrew Cuomo

Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?

— Burt Lancaster

I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.

— Nancy Pelosi

You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.

— Janeane Garofalo

“committees can criticize, but they cannot create.”

— David Ogilvy

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking.

— Art Linkletter

One of the great joys this year and the year before has been how all of the people in this body, men and women,…

— Robin Hayes

Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush.

— Betsy DeVos

It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is…

— Anthony Trollope

My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.

— Alton Brown