Committee Quotes - page 2

Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush. (Jane Espenson)
For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that. View quote
Fred Thompson
If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes. View quote
Ross Perot
I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that a committee of 20 really hard-working, intelligent people couldn't do the same thing. View quote
David Brin
If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe. View quote
Walter Lippmann
But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey. View quote
Jimmy Hoffa
The number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible. View quote
Louis B. Mayer
Opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling is bad public policy that has no place in the budget process,. The Budget Committee needs to leave drilling in the Arctic Refuge behind and focus on crafting this year's budget package. View quote
Russ Feingold
A cabinet is a combining committee,-a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other. View quote
Walter Bagehot
It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it was as well recognised that the two would always have a turbulent interface, and that the clique, the caucus, and the conspiracy were as ineradicable features of civility as the council or the committee. View quote
Ken MacLeod
What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee? (George Steiner)
Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours. View quote
Milton Berle
The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped. View quote
Alvar Aalto
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. View quote
Karl Marx
[The Joint Intelligence Committee] concludes that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, that Saddam has continued to produce them, that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes, including against his own Shia population, and that he is actively trying to acquire nuclear weapons capability. View quote
Tony Blair
Indeed, the "whole bourgeoisie" on whose behalf the government was acting as its "committee" was a composite of a vast multitude of businessmen appearing as a conglomeration of many different and divergent groups and interests. View quote
Paul A. Baran
It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy. View quote
Ben Macintyre
I found collaboration to be a terrible thing in Hollywood because there are so many people involved you have to make a thousand little compromises to every project and every single scene is a committee decision. It's maddening. But with comics you've got an artist and you've got a writer. View quote
Benjamin Percy
It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything. View quote
Zack Snyder
My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee. (Alton Brown)
Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films. View quote
Robert Duvall
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame. View quote
Lady Bird Johnson
If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee. View quote
William Graham Sumner
In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee. View quote
David Dinkins