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Committees Quotes

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

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

9.
I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

10.
Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.
Roger Stone

11.
You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.
Whoopi Goldberg

12.
Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?
Burt Lancaster

13.
If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.
George Nethercutt

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

15.
The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.
John Ensign

16.
The optimum committee has no members.
Norman Ralph Augustine

17.
Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.
Mort Sahl

18.
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
Frank Moore Colby

19.
My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.
Alton Brown

20.
I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.
Nancy Pelosi

21.
I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.
Geraldine Ferraro

22.
I also served on many government committees.
Leo Baekeland

23.
Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.
Anthony Sampson

24.
We always had a central committee. They were mesmerized by Eldridge Cleaver.
Huey Newton

25.
I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.
Karen McCarthy

26.
Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.
Jane Espenson

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

30.
a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.
Stella Benson

31.
We should call editorials what they are: columns written by committees.
Dave Barry

32.
Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.
William Monahan

33.
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

34.
Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony.
John McCain

35.
The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA.
Ted Cruz

36.
What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?
George Steiner

37.
You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.
Janeane Garofalo

38.
Committees do harm merely by existing.
Freeman Dyson

39.
Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.
Reid Hoffman

40.
[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will

41.
Most search committees use me.
Barry Alvarez

42.
If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.
Nader al-Masri

43.
So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.
Trey Parker

44.
A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.
John F. Kennedy

45.
To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.
Henry Spencer

46.
The American Jewish Committee has pioneered the German-Jewish-American dialogue.
Klaus Kinkel

47.
The Russians stole from the Democratic National Committee with hacking.
E. J. Dionne

48.
the best committee's a committee of one!
Naomi Mitchison

49.
Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.
Henry A. Kissinger

50.
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