Committees Quote by Freeman Dyson

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

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

— Fred Allen

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to…

— Alvar Aalto

All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law

— Theodore Roosevelt

With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always…

— Michael Faraday

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

— Laurence J. Peter

“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

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

— Walter Legge

The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Clearly there are always unintended consequences of any legislative or regulatory act that's taken in the heat of battle.

— Richard Grasso