Committees famous quotes

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
-- Alan Bullock

#Democracy #Speech #Committees

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

#Feelings #Committees

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.
-- Anthony Sampson

#Personality #Committees #Extras

Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking.
-- Art Linkletter

#Thinking #Together #Committees

Most search committees use me.
-- Barry Alvarez

#Use #Using Me #Committees

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

#Committees

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

#Government #Democracy #Committees

Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!
-- David Tennant

#Committees

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

#Would Be #Committees #Persist

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

#Winning #Agriculture #Committees

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

#Book #Worthwhile #Committees

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

#Foreign Policy #Committees #Policy

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.
-- Henry Spencer

#Design #Politics #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.
-- Jan Schakowsky

#Nsa #States #Committees

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

#Made #Committees

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

#Trying #Cinema #Committees

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

#Spending #Committees

I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.
-- Joseph Pulitzer

#Want #Select #Committees

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

#Action #Committees

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

#Perfect #Vision #Committees

The American Jewish Committee has pioneered the German-Jewish-American dialogue.
-- Klaus Kinkel

#Dialogue #Committees

I also served on many government committees.
-- Leo Baekeland

#Government #Committees

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

#Athlete #Palestinian #Committees

the best committee's a committee of one!
-- Naomi Mitchison

#Committees

The optimum committee has no members.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Inspiration #Members #Committees

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

#Technology #Computer #Committees

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

#Enthusiasm #Purpose #Committees

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

#Agency #Nasa #Committees

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

#Hollywood #Committees

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.
-- V. S. Pritchett

#States #Committees

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

#Art #Useless #Committees

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

#Book #History #Committees

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

#Film #Blind #Committees

In every committee of twelve, one will love you and one will betray you.
-- Lyle E. Schaller

#Love You #Twelve #Committees

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

#Law #Instigators #Committees

The Russians stole from the Democratic National Committee with hacking.
-- E. J. Dionne

#Hacking #Democratic #Committees

Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.
-- Roger Stone

#Committees #Built #Statues

Living movements do not come out of committees.
-- John Newman

#Movement #Committees

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

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