Committees Quotes

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

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

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

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

Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!

Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.

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

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

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

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

Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

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

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

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

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

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

The optimum committee has no members.

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

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

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

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

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

I also served on many government committees.

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.

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

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

Living movements do not come out of committees.

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

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

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

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

the best committee's a committee of one!

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

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.

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking.

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

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.

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

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

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

What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?

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

Committees do harm merely by existing.

Most search committees use me.

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.

[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings.