Committees Quotes and Sayings

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
- Edward Shepherd Mead

I don’t believe a committee can write a book.  It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don’t believe it can write a book.
- Arnold Toynbee

I don’t think there’s a company, a management, an audit committee that hasn’t gone back and re-looked at what they’re doing. . . . People are really scrutinizing and (want to) really make sure their houses are in order and clean.
- William Esrey

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.
- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice.
- Chuck Klosterman

My fee, if I select the subject, is $150; if your committee selects the subject, the charge is $250, but in either case the speech is the same .
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

When it comes to facing up to serious problems, each candidate will pledge to appoint a committee. And what is a committee? ;A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. But it all sounds great in a campaign speech.
- Richard Long Harkness

The true magnitude of the Nobel Committee’s blunder in awarding the Prize to Kissinger didn’t become apparent until the destabilization of Cambodia, set in motion by American intervention, produced the Khmer Rouge and the slaughter of over a million.
- Paul Hager

Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don’t like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever.
- Timothy West

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee — that will do them in.
- Bradley’s Bromide

The world is proof that God is a committee.
- Bob Stokes

One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don’t understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.
- Garrison Keillor

If you see a snake, just kill it – don’t appoint a committee on snakes.
- Ross Perot

A Committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
- Fred Allen

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
- Barnett Cocks

You really don’t want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
- George F. Will

During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
- Kate Smith

A committee is an animal with four back legs.
- John le Carre

At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, ‘You know, we’re having a little problem with waste these days.’ I didn’t know what he meant then, but I know now.
- David R. Brower

A decision is what a man makes when he can’t find anybody to serve on a committee.
- Fletcher Knebel

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