Attention Quote by Herman Kahn

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

“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

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

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

— Lady Bird Johnson

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Also, the Federal Advisory Committee should be enlarged and reorganized. Members should be chosen for the broadest possible representation of the public interest, their…

— Wright Patman

Most people want their representatives to get something done.

— Joe Lieberman

I've come to feel very strongly, not as a joke, that if you appoint a committee of more than four people, their efficiency starts…

— Charlton Heston

Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking.

— Art Linkletter

A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

— Antonin Scalia

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

— Fletcher Knebel