Committees Quotes

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The optimum committee has no members. — Norman Ralph Augustine
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee. — F. Lee Bailey
I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations. — Joe Barton
I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. — Milton Berle
If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price… — Ben Bernanke
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do… — Alvar Aalto
At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with… — David R. Brower
My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee. — Alton Brown
The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The… — Alvar Aalto
What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference… — Tony Campolo
So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not… — Stokely Carmichael
A committee is an animal with four back legs. — John le Carre
I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it. — John le Carre
Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look… — Gary Allan
A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. — Fred Allen
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be… — Fred Allen
I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas… — Tom Coburn
A camel is a horse designed by committee. — Alec Issigonis

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