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

A committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms. — Stella Benson

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

Let's form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we'll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct. — Ryan Lilly

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies. — Fay Weldon

I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on. — Richard Rodney Bennett

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

The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants. — Vladimir Lenin

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees. — Will Rogers

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

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

Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony. — John McCain

In my experience, committees can criticize, but they cannot create. 'Search the parks in all your cities You'll find no statues of committees. — David Ogilvy

We should call editorials what they are: columns written by committees. — Dave Barry

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

Any terrorists that have come here and committee acts from 9/11 have come here in some form of a visa. — Chuck Todd

They've done away with those committees. That shows the success of what the Soviets were able to do in this country. — Ronald Reagan

Committees do harm merely by existing. — Freeman Dyson

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

Living movements do not come of committees, nor are great ideas worked out through the post, even though it had been the penny post. — John Henry Newman

Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues. — Mark Twain

It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have windows, and not fall over. — Max Barry

A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees. — Storm Jameson

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

Committees can criticize, but they cannot create. — David Ogilvy

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

If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea. — William Booth

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

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

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

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

There is no more great men; there is only great committees. — Marshall McLuhan

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work. — Laurence J. Peter

I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

The best committee's a committee of one! — Naomi Mitchison

The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs. — Celia Green

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better. — Peter Drucker

Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even. — Mort Sahl

Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees. — Antony Gormley

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

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them. — Henry A. Kissinger

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one. — John F. Kennedy

It is well known that the Nobel Committees bring world opinion to a focus, and that fact still further enhances the prestige attaching to the Prizes. — Robert Robinson

We always had a central committee. They were mesmerized by Eldridge Cleaver. — Huey Newton

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government. — Bob Dole

Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding. — Andrzej Wajda

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

Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I work on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees to keep us safe at home and strong in the world. — Tim Kaine

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

The information that follows is taken primarily ... from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees. — G. Edward Griffin

We do not need committees but we need commitment. The nation is already reeling under the burden of several committees formed in the last decade. — Narendra Modi