"If you ever live in a country run……" — William Graham Sumner
"If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee."
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- The optimum committee has no members. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out… — F. Lee Bailey
- I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common… — Joe Barton
- I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. — Milton Berle
- If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain… — Ben Bernanke
- We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem… — Alvar Aalto
- At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're… — David R. Brower
- My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee. — Alton Brown
- The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the… — Alvar Aalto
- What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the… — Tony Campolo
- So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student… — Stokely Carmichael