Persist Quote by Frank Moore Colby

“Decisions by committee are almost always long in coming and dead wrong. A world-changing vision comes from one person, not five or or twenty…

— Patrick Carman

If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.

— Anonymous

Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

— Antony Jay

We do not need committees but we need commitment. The nation is already reeling under the burden of several committees formed in the last…

— Narendra Modi

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

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

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

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“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

Others like myself will carry on meeting constituents, but doing it in a very safe environment, that's the key to us. That's what we…

— Lindsay Hoyle

And in an issue with this kind of concern to a committee that bears the oversight responsibility, I think you can see that we're…

— Dianne Feinstein

Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking.

— Art Linkletter