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Committees Quotes

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Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.
Peter Drucker

Authors on Committees Quotes: Stella Benson John F. Kennedy Frank Moore Colby Whoopi Goldberg Burt Lancaster Henry Spencer Nancy Pelosi Dave Barry Klaus Kinkel Geraldine Ferraro Trey Parker John le Carre Leo Baekeland William Bateson Alton Brown Jan Schakowsky Naomi Mitchison David Tennant Huey Newton Henry A. Kissinger Shepherd Mead E. J. Dionne John McCain George Nethercutt William Monahan Anthony Sampson Jane Espenson Karen McCarthy Charles Frankel Lyle E. Schaller Mark B. Cohen Roger Stone C. Northcote Parkinson
2.
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
Shepherd Mead

3.
I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.
Joseph Pulitzer

4.
Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
Alan Bullock

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A single vision is more perfect than a committee vision because with everyone having their say, it becomes compromised.
Karl Pilkington

6.
I would trust Shakespeare, but I would not trust a committee of Shakespeares.
William Bateson

7.
Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!
David Tennant

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Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.
Roger Stone

9.
Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
Laurence J. Peter

10.
I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

11.
If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.
George Nethercutt

12.
You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.
Whoopi Goldberg

13.
Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?
Burt Lancaster

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We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
Frank Moore Colby

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My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.
Alton Brown

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I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.
Nancy Pelosi

17.
I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.
Geraldine Ferraro

18.
I also served on many government committees.
Leo Baekeland

19.
Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.
Anthony Sampson

20.
We always had a central committee. They were mesmerized by Eldridge Cleaver.
Huey Newton

21.
I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.
Karen McCarthy

22.
Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.
Jane Espenson

23.
I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.
Walter Legge

24.
The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.
John Ensign

25.
The optimum committee has no members.
Norman Ralph Augustine

26.
Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.
Mort Sahl

27.
Why did we not know that heads of state were being eavesdropped on, spied on? We are the intelligence committee and we didn't know that.
Jan Schakowsky

28.
Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.
Charles Frankel

29.
Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.
William Monahan

30.
I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
John le Carre

31.
Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony.
John McCain

32.
Living movements do not come out of committees.
John Newman

33.
a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.
Stella Benson

34.
We should call editorials what they are: columns written by committees.
Dave Barry

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A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.
John F. Kennedy

36.
To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.
Henry Spencer

37.
The American Jewish Committee has pioneered the German-Jewish-American dialogue.
Klaus Kinkel

38.
The Russians stole from the Democratic National Committee with hacking.
E. J. Dionne

39.
the best committee's a committee of one!
Naomi Mitchison

40.
Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.
Henry A. Kissinger

41.
The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.
V. S. Pritchett

42.
A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will spring.
C. Northcote Parkinson

43.
Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking.
Art Linkletter

44.
Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.
Mark B. Cohen

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In every committee of twelve, one will love you and one will betray you.
Lyle E. Schaller

46.
Any terrorists that have come here and committee acts from 9/11 have come here in some form of a visa.
Chuck Todd

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The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.
Stella Benson

48.
The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA.
Ted Cruz

49.
What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?
George Steiner

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You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.
Janeane Garofalo