Committees Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Flower, Roots, Plant

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• Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.

  Mitch Daniels

  Weed, Real, Government

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• 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

  Stupid, Government, Years

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

  Alton Brown

  Feelings, Good Eats, Happened

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• They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

  Serge Lang

  Community, Police, Attention

  Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.309, Springer Science & Business Media

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• 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

  Government, Usa, Rights

  "Newsweek" Magazine, April 17, 1967.

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• Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Should Have, Young, Scholar

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

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Work, Humor

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

  George Nethercutt

  Winning, Agriculture, Ifs

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• The optimum committee has no members.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Inspiration, Members, Optimum

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• I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant

  Anita Hill

  May, Information, Vendetta

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 11 October 1991, Washington, D.C.

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• 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

  Cities, Two, Three

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• One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Ideas, Records, Want

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• Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.

  James Connolly

  Government, Class, Affair

  James Connolly (2008). “Socialism and the Irish Rebellion: Writings from James Connolly”, Red & Black Pub

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• A cabinet is a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other.

  Walter Bagehot

  Cabinets, States, Hyphens

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Cabinet'

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

  Jane Espenson

  Made

  Ain't It Cool News interview, aintitcool.com, July 17, 2003.

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• In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.

  Leon Trotsky

  Party, Organization, Politics

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• The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.

  Carl Jung

  Pain, Museums, Brain

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1964). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Civilization in transition”

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• A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.

  Carl Jung

  Brain, Hundred, Bigs

  Carl Gustav Jung, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1970). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Civilization in transition”

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• It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wise, Running, Wisdom

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.80, Knopf

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• Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

  Mark Twain

  Rooms, Whiskey, Congress

  Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.50, Purdue University Press

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• Committees are, by nature, timid. They are based on the premise of safety in numbers; content to survive inconspicuously, rather than take risks and move independently ahead. Without independence, without the freedom for new ideas to be tried, to fail, and to ultimately succeed, the world will not move ahead, but rather live in fear of it's own potential

  Ferdinand Porsche

  Moving, Ideas, Numbers

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• I condemn the entry of a Russian so-called humanitarian convoy into Ukrainian territory without the consent of the Ukrainian authorities and without any involvement of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Territory, Red, Humanitarian

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• Congressman [Richard ] Icord headed a House on American activities committee. It was called the House Internal Security Committee. And he put out a report, and he named a number of very destructive people who lectured at colleges and left arson in their wake and did other terrible things. And he mentioned me and he ascribed to me three organizations to which I'd never belonged, and I decided I would do something about this.

  Nat Hentoff

  College, Organization, Numbers

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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

  Ross Perot

  Leadership, Business, Snakes

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