Committees Quotes

• Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Inspirational, Flames, Knowledgeable Person

  Lady Bird Johnson (2007). “A White House Diary”, p.79, University of Texas Press

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

  Walter Legge

  Art, Useless, Convinced

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

  Laurence J. Peter

  Important, Literature

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

  Nancy Pelosi

  Appointments, Bipartisan

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• 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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• A camel is a horse designed by committee.

  Alec Issigonis

  Horse, Bad Ass, Design

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• 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.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Design, Television

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Party, Sea, Political

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• In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.

  John L. Lewis

  Agreement, Organization, Steel

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.

  John L. Lewis

  Agony, Organization, America

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• 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.

  Herman Kahn

  Government, Numbers, Giving

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.209, Lexington Books

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• During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

  Kate Smith

  America, Presidential, Speech

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

  Karen McCarthy

  Action, Knows

  "House Panel Says DeLay Gripe Was Exaggerated", www.foxnews.com. November 19, 2004.

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• If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Courage, Learning, Knowledge

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• As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.

  Rick Larsen

  Years, Aggravation, Agriculture

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• Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods.

  Thomas Menino

  Boston, Tonight, Host

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• We have a lot of rule changes. I am part of the competition committee. We spent a lot time evaluating the game, how do we make the game better for our fans.

  Ron Jaworski

  Games, Competition, Fans

  "Philadelphia Soul President Ron Jaworski". Interview with Fran Stuchbury, www.oursportscentral.com. August 15, 2005.

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• 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.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Strength, Strong, Business

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• As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

  Norman Lamm

  Law, Privacy, Results

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

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, Symptoms, Meetings

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• A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."

  Allan Sherman

  Color, Being Different, Might

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• By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.

  Rob Zombie

  Time, Art, Done

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• Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

  George Will

  Football, Inspiration, Nfl

  International Herald Tribune, May 07, 1990.

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• 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

  Thinking, America, House

  Harry S. Truman (1960). “Truman Speaks”, New York : Columbia University Press

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