Committee Quote by Richard Harkness Download Open image “What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.” — Richard Harkness ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Committee Committee Group Group Unwilling Humor Picked Unfit Unfit Unnecessary Unwilling Picked
A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done. — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done. — Green Monk Copy Share Image
Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms. — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises… — Stan Kelly-Bootle Copy Share Image
Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
What is interesting in Washington, D.C., is I've never missed a vote. The veterans' committee keeps track of hearings, and I've never missed a… — Mike Coffman Copy Share Image
You never meet the writer when you're making a TV movie in America - they're too ashamed to show up and see how their… — Joe Don Baker Copy Share Image
It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
One of the great joys this year and the year before has been how all of the people in this body, men and women,… — Robin Hayes Copy Share Image
I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters'… — Dixie Lee Ray Copy Share Image
Some people advocate public nomination and a three-track system - allowing voters and political parties to make nominations along with the committee. These people… — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
As you know in this committee, we have all of HUD, and HUD is responsible for so many programs that determine the quality of… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
I believe in a running back by committee. Always have. Always been taught that way. — John Dorsey Copy Share Image
As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee - the chief tax-writing body in Congress - I understand that true comprehensive tax reform… — Kevin Brady Copy Share Image