Committees Quotes - Page 2

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

  Fletcher Knebel

  Success, Men, Decision

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• Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

  Antony Jay

  Responsibility, Decision, Matter

  Antony Jay (2009). “How to Run a Meeting”, p.5, Harvard Business Review Press

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• A committee is an animal with four back legs.

  John le Carre

  Animal, Legs, Four

  1974 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, pt.3, ch.34.

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

  Charles Kettering

  Business, Ideas, World

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• Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

  Milton Berle

  Hilarious, Silly, Men

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• A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.

  Alec Issigonis

  Horse, Camels, Looks

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

  Milton Berle

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Teamwork

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• Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

  Alan Bullock

  Democracy, Speech

  "Lord Bullock of Leafield" by Mark Frankland, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.

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• I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Foreign Policy, Policy

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• Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

  Anthony Sampson

  Personality, Extras, Muddle

  Anthony Sampson (1962). “Anatomy of Britain”, London : Hodder and Stoughton

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• It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.

  Anthony Trollope

  Real, Believe, Men

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “The Claverings: Trollope's Works”, p.307, 谷月社

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• Last week in the Homeland Security Committee, Republicans were against port security; and today, one week after Democrats unveiled our Real Security Agenda, they're for it

  Jim Clyburn

  Real, Fog, Agendas

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• Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever.

  Timothy West

  Money, Fighting, Watches

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• There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee... This was all stuff that was previously known.

  Robert Torricelli

  Stuff, Evidence, Testimony

  " Torricelli sees vindication in ethics case" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. July 26, 2002.

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• Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?

  Burt Lancaster

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• The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Doors, Decision, Secret

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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

  Would Be, Meetings, Persist

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”

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• Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

  Shepherd Mead

  Technology, Computer

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• If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

  Dave Barry

  Life And Love, Business, Humor

  Dave Barry (1999). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• 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

  Life, Good Morning, Adversity

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.180, Penguin

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• When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity.... We are designed, coded, it seems, to place the highest priority on being individuals, and we must do this first, at whatever cost, even if it means disability for the group.

  Lewis Thomas

  Reading, Mean, Priorities

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• For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.

  Fred Thompson

  Long, People, American History

  "Choosing a New Supreme Court Justice". "Special Report" with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. July 6, 2005.

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

  Robert Duvall

  Special, Today, Rooms

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• First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.

  Dorothy Day

  Firsts, Speak, Conspiracy

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