Authority Quote by Antony Jay

“We use committees for all the ulterior purposes for which they might have been designed: diffusion of executive responsibility, plausible deniability, misdirection, providing the…

— Charles Stross

Committees are, by nature, timid. They are based on the premise of safety in numbers; content to survive inconspicuously, rather than take risks and…

— Ferdinand Porsche

A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

— Fred Allen

Committees do harm merely by existing.

— Freeman Dyson

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second…

— Katharine Whitehorn

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

— Frank Moore Colby

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

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

— Laurence J. Peter

Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking.

— Art Linkletter

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what…

— Milos Forman

Some, given the scepter of responsibility, confuse it with the club of authority.

— Green Monk