Committees Quotes · Page 12

“Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The goblins of the city may hold committees to divide a single potato, but the strong and the cruel still sit on…

— Catherynne M. Valente

It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a…

— Martin Firrell

They've done away with those committees. That shows the success of what the Soviets were able to do in this country.

— Ronald Reagan

At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will…

— Warren Buffett

I guess for major film industry players a film is a money making devise, so using formulas assures them that their investment…

— Signe Baumane

The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995,…

— Charles Bass

[Donald] Trump`s campaign, the Republican National Committee and state parties employ just 1,409 staffers in 16 states. So, nearly for the one,…

— Chris Hayes

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.

— Will Rogers

The fact remains that we're running a presidential campaign. And we're doing that through appearances like today, fund-raisers like today, where Donald…

— Kellyanne Conway

I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a…

— Georges Danton

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

— Peter Drucker

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

— Elbert Hubbard

CNN says Donna Brazile, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, will no longer be a political commentator for the network. This…

— Ari Shapiro

It would be worth the while if in each town there were a committee appointed to see that the beauty of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two…

— Ed Gillespie

I am hostile to the idea that collective solutions have to be made by committees and then imposed top-down. I very much…

— Roger Scruton

Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding.

— Andrzej Wajda

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Well, as soon as [Donald Trump] travels to 112 countries and negotiates a peace deal, a cease-fire, a release of dissidents, an…

— Donald Trump

It's a fact of life that how you dress affects how you are perceived and whether your contribution to a meeting is…

— Stephanie Ellis

Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.

— Camille Paglia

It is no surprise that the Republican-controlled Senate intelligence committee has once again caved in to the wishes of the White House…

— Harry Reid

Presented memorial to [Constitutional Convention] committee on sufferage. Was very courteously treated. We all felt it a great day in the history…

— Ruth May Fox

She [Carolyn Maloney] understands the whole picture. She is comfortable with these issues 'cause she is chair of the committee, and she's…

— Eleanor Smeal