Top 155 Committees Quotes & Sayings

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

I am honored to serve on the Natural Resources and Budget Committees.

Living movements do not come out of committees.

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

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

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.

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

Committees do harm merely by existing.

I'm often asked by search committees for public and private universities to help them think about how to find their next president.

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.

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

You shouldn't have political action committees.

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

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.

Legacies, athletes, and favored racial minorities all receive preferential treatment from admissions committees to the exclusion of academically better-qualified students.

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

I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

It should be mandatory that any tax breaks go through appropriate committees and be voted on separately by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

The goal of the eight Benghazi committees, one of which produced and nurtured 'emailgate,' has been clear from the start: to prevent Hillary Clinton from becoming president of the United States.

Most search committees use me.

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

Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy - in other words, what's happening now.

Avoid committees and consensus in developing big, distinctive business model advantages. Individuals have big, distinctive ideas; committees and consensus turn big, distinctive ideas into mundane ideas.

Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush.

I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and the Sons of Liberty did in Boston was spread the word about the abuses of the British. They had Committees of Correspondence that got the word out to the colonies. We need Committees of Correspondence now, and we are getting them.

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.

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

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

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

I am continuously amazed by innovations in security and surveillance technology as a member of the House committees on both Homeland Security and Intelligence.

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

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

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.

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

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

A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will spring.

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

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

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

There's a host of difficult issues here, and that's why when you mentioned at the top of the show that the committees were looking at this, that's where I think we should be going.

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

The high esteem in which the Nobel Prizes are held is undoubtedly due to the conscientious way in which the Committees have discharged a heavy responsibility.

The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.

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.

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

The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.

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

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.

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.

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.

The Internet is a very exciting way of doing material that's uncensored, and doesn't have to go through TV committees, and people aren't telling you what you can and can't do.

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

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

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.

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.

I also served on many government committees.

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.

Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking.

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