Committees Quote by Henry A. Kissinger

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

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

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

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

— Antony Jay

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

We cannot be mere consumers of good governance, we must be participants; we must be co-creators.

— Rohini Nilekani

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

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years.…

— Mitch Daniels

We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're…

— Mark Thomas

“We have been gradually finding out that there is more democracy in letting a committee or representative ten to details than in making everybody's…

— Edward Pearson Pressey

Data about an innovative idea is rarely crystal clear.

— Scott D. Anthony