Committee Quotes

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America! (Harry S. Truman)
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. View quote
George Will
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee. View quote
F. Lee Bailey
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. View quote
John Steinbeck
I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace. View quote
Wangari Maathai
A committee is twelve men doing the work of one. View quote
John F. Kennedy
I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it. View quote
John le Carré
Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to. View quote
Katharine Whitehorn
I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation (the Guffey Coal Control Bill) View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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. View quote
Frank Luntz
Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress. (Daniel Dennett)
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. View quote
Arthur Goldberg
We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office. View quote
Ed Gillespie
If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws. View quote
Mark Shields
I hold no brief for Communists, but I believe in and will defend their right to act independently within the law. I question whether members of the committee are interested in defending our form of government or whether they are attempting to suppress political opinion at odds with their own. View quote
Gregory Peck
A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands. View quote
Brian Mulroney
[Belafonte] was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. It was good advice when I found myself speaking at the UN Committee Against Apartheid and then the UN General Assembly. View quote
Miriam Makeba
Safeguarding the interests of our Taiwan compatriots and expanding their well-being is the mainland's oft-repeated pledge and solemn promise of the new leaders of China's Communist Party central committee. View quote
Xi Jinping
Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee? View quote
Burt Lancaster
The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past. (Norman Mailer)
Voroshilov was a striking figure, with a great deal of influence among the workers, so that the degree of influence of the committee on the workers and its success as regards recruitment depended primarily on him. View quote
Kliment Voroshilov
A committee is an animal with four back legs. View quote
John le Carré
It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time. View quote
Roger Ebert
Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women. View quote
Camille Paglia