Committees Quotes

Committees Quote of the day

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

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

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

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

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.

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

I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.

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

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

You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.

Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!

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

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

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

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

With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.

Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.

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

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

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

Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.

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.

Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments.

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

I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.

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

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.

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

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

The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.

We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart.

I also served on many government committees.

The optimum committee has no members.

I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

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

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

A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

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

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

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.

Why did we not know that heads of state were being eavesdropped on, spied on? We are the intelligence committee and we didn't know that.

Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.

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

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

There is no more great men; there is only great committees.

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

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

Living movements do not come out of committees.