quotes about Committees
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Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
-- Alan BullockSource : "Lord Bullock of Leafield" by Mark Frankland, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.
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My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.
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Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.
-- Anthony SampsonSource : Anthony Sampson (1962). “Anatomy of Britain”, London : Hodder and Stoughton
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Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking.
-- Art Linkletter -
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Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?
-- Burt Lancaster -
Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.
-- Charles Frankel -
Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!
-- David TennantSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.
-- George Nethercutt -
What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?
-- George Steiner -
I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.
-- Geraldine Ferraro -
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To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.
-- Henry Spencer -
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 SchakowskySource : "NSA spying: 20 great quotes" by Jose Delreal and Nick Gass, Slide 19, www.politico.com. October 28, 2013.
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Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.
-- Jane EspensonSource : Ain't It Cool News interview, aintitcool.com, July 17, 2003.
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You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.
-- Janeane Garofalo -
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The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.
-- John Ensign -
I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.
-- Joseph PulitzerSource : 1909 In Pearson's Magazine, Mar.
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I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.
-- Karen McCarthySource : "House Panel Says DeLay Gripe Was Exaggerated", www.foxnews.com. November 19, 2004.
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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 -
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The American Jewish Committee has pioneered the German-Jewish-American dialogue.
-- Klaus Kinkel -
I also served on many government committees.
-- Leo Baekeland -
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 -
the best committee's a committee of one!
-- Naomi MitchisonSource : Naomi Mitchison (1997). “Lobsters on the Agenda”, Birlinn Publishers
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The optimum committee has no members.
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Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
-- Shepherd Mead -
a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.
-- Stella BensonSource : Stella Benson (2012). “Living Alone”, p.16, tredition
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The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA.
-- Ted Cruz -
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So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.
-- Trey Parker -
The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.
-- V. S. Pritchett -
I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.
-- Walter Legge -
You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.
-- Whoopi Goldberg -
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Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.
-- William MonahanSource : Source: collider.com
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In every committee of twelve, one will love you and one will betray you.
-- Lyle E. Schaller -
Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.
-- Mark B. Cohen -
The Russians stole from the Democratic National Committee with hacking.
-- E. J. DionneSource : Source: abcnews.go.com
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Living movements do not come out of committees.
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I would trust Shakespeare, but I would not trust a committee of Shakespeares.
-- William Bateson