French revolution Quote by Hilary Mantel

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

“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”

— Barnett Cocks

“I want to head up a committee to discuss how to properly head up committees. Our committee will sit at a round table and…

— Jarod Kintz

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most…

— Felix Adler

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“The meeting was as off-the-books as it got. Equal parts indignant denial and veiled threat. Accidents happen. Don’t want to lose your people? Keep…

— Stephen England

“Quiet people avoid the question of the Presidency, for there will be a new election in three years and a half, and party feeling…

— Charles Dickens

COMMITTEE: A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.

— Nikhil Saluja

I make a prediction here and now, and, my friends, I want you to watch the proceedings of Congress in these coming weeks of…

— Richard Parks Bland

I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.

— Jim Lehrer

I may be leaving the Senate, but the next chapter in my public service is just beginning.

— Orrin Hatch

“When we lose that sense of the possible we lose it fast. One day we are absorbed by dressing well, following the news, keeping…

— Joan Didion