Committees Quotes and Sayings

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
- Milton Berle

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
- Elbert Hubbard

As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality.
- Mike Rogers

There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.
- Lester J. Pourciau

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
- George Will

By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.
- Rob Zombie

First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
- Pat Roberts

For a long time in American history, people didn’t even come up before the Senate. They didn’t come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.
- Fred Thompson

Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.
- Mark Twain

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.
- Milos Forman

To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent.
- Robert Copeland

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.
- Melissa Bean

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
- John Steinbeck

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

- Arthur Goldberg

As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.
- Rick Larsen

And yes, there’s a simplicity to writing books because you’re not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.
- Bernard Cornwell

But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic.
- John L. Lewis

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee.
- F. Lee Bailey

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be meetings.
- Dave Barry

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.
- Author Unknown

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