Committee Quotes

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

Group, Hours, Minutes

Committee Quote

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

Morning, Experience, Sleep

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?
Rush Limbaugh

Health, Care, Country

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

Snake, Snakes, Appoint

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!
Harry S. Truman

Time, America, Said

A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
Fred Allen

Group, Unwilling, Appointed

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

Nothing, Done, Group

If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation.
Paul Ryan

Good, Fight, Done

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will

Football, Two, America

Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen

Men, Nothing, Done

I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president.
Pat Robertson

President, Guy, Won

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

Today, Through, Rights

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.
Tom Coburn

Government, Food, Stupidity

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
Charles Kettering

The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.
Doris Lessing

Vote, Themselves, Run

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Time, Society, Wanted

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.
Tony Campolo

Experience, Wisdom, Together

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

Making, Bipartisan

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

Four, Animal, Legs

Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.
Arlen Specter

Power, Separation, Says

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Human, Real, Often

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.
Robert Duvall

Good, Today, Everything

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Nature, Rather, Takes

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
Alvar Aalto

Nothing, Two, Problem

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Lonely, Path, Free

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

Good, Feeling, Left

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

Time, Problem, Energy

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

Wrong, Movie, Dread

I do believe very much in movie as a one-man-show. I think that where I've watched movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
John le Carre

Wrong, Movie, Dread

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

Written, Hollywood, Directed

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