(564 quotes found)
“Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.”
Will Rogers
“If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.”
Charles F. Kettering
“If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.”
Ross Perot
“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
“Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.”
Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
“Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.”
Mark Twain
“brought his notes and his requests, and he thanked the members of the committee.”
Issam Ghazzawi
“Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.”
Charles Frankel
“The Committee of 100 commissioned a survey in which they found that Asian-American candidates are the most unpopular of all the races. They found that people were less likely to vote for Chinese-Americans than other minorities.”
Iris Chang
“We worked very closely with the nominating committee ... We followed exactly their instructions.”
Bay Buchanan
