Committee Quotes

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

Anybody with any brain can figure out that if they can get on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, that’s where they ought to be because that’s where the money is. Once I got on Defense I went from being the skunk to being the prettiest girl at the party.

I have been told for years by among others, some of my own family, that this is exactly what the Bureau was doing all the time, and in my great wisdom and high office, I assured them that ... it just wasn't true. It couldn't happen. They wouldn't do it .... The trick now ... is for this Committee to be able to figure out how to persuade the people of this country that indeed it did go on. And how shall we insure that is will never happen again?

Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!

We must create a committee to address the long-standing discrimination against black people in America.

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.

Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

The Committee to Save America. Have you ever heard anything more smug, more pompous but - most importantly - more anti-democratic? Because it turns out that the Committee to Save America was really the Committee to Save the American Establishment.

The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.

When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.

Along with my passion for horse breeding, I was a horse racing enthusiast... In 1974 I was elected as a committee member and subsequently as a steward of the Turf Club. I had a burning desire to clean up the sport, which had always carried the stigma of gambling and manipulation.

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

God so loved the world, that he formed a committee, that whosoever attendeth on it should not perish, but have everlasting life in which to await a decision.

When I was counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee, about 25% of the important leads which our committee developed came from newspapers. This increased my respect for those courageous newspapers which assisted us. It also caused me to look with wonderment at some of the newspapers that did not.

Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.

I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder.

No negotiation is ever possible if you have to negotiate not only with the people in the room but also with some other committee in permanent session.

The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth.

Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.

EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.

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

You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister.

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

the best committee's a committee of one!