Committees Quote by Laurence J. Peter

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

— Elbert Hubbard

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 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

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

— V. S. Pritchett

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

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 group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

— Fred Allen

Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking.

— Art Linkletter

Chairing any Appropriations subcommittee is both a great honor and weighty responsibility.

— Dick Durbin

The last thing members of the committee want to do is pass legislation.

— John McCain

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