Famous Quotes & Sayings

A Committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but as a group decide that nothing can be done

A committee doesn't cost us anything. It's not a committee to do anything, but gives you an idea of the possibilities. It's worth weighing the pros and cons.

After talking to the different school committees and studying their responses, we feel we can't endorse any one school over all the others.

Larry Miller

Any time we can get together and talk about an issue, I think it should be considered progress. I'd like to thank Representative Bradley for putting this committee hearing together. We look forward to working with the mineral rights groups and our elected leaders on a solution.

P. J. O'Rourke

The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.

The No No Committee is concerned and will be reviewing whether the commissioners have violated Texas law.

The nomination committee to appoint commissioners has been put in place but that is not public information yet.

Tony Parker

It proves that the committee is Anglo-Saxon. They prefer the English.

It is truly the opinion of this monitoring committee that Michelle could win the Olympics.

George Will

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Steven Schier

It's one less Minnesotan on committees dealing with national policies as they relate to Minnesota.

The (Federal Open Market) Committee will more than likely remain on hold, unless economic developments force its hand.

The feeling is that those meetings have been sufficiently good and constructive that they have ... superseded committee meetings.

The fascinating thing about the committee is that in the final analysis, you have to exercise your own subjective judgment. It's so easy to just latch onto numbers. You could have watched a team play whose numbers really don't truly illustrate how good it is.

Arlen Specter

These tapes, which the committee will put on display, really nail down the case, ... It comes out of President Clinton's mouth that these funds, this soft money, was used to promote his candidacy. He says that. And now we know positively there's been a violation of the federal election code.

Once the committee has gone through all the correspondence a directive will be issued.

That is less than half a percent of (the players). Even if the committee elects another 12 or 15, that would be only about 1.2 percent.

W. H. Murray

That man's passion could move mountains. So I marched right into that Energy Committee chairman's office and fought side-by-side with Sam to restore those cuts. And we won,

Effectively they are disappearing because they are being deliberately hidden from the International Committee of the Red Cross.

No more back-door tenders. No more closed-door meetings. We are going to open all portfolio committees, executive committees and council meetings to the media and the public.

No matter what level of corruption the members of Congress engage in, the ethics committees do nothing. It's a national embarrassment.

John Garrett

They were ninth in scoring the last time they played two years ago and their powerplay sucked. So they'll score by committee and the powerplay will be better. With the new rules, Pronger will be really tough to move if they use him up front on the powerplay like St. Louis did at times. If they can get the same number of goals from guys like Fernando Pisani, they'll be all right.

John Garrett

They were ninth in scoring the last time they played two years ago, and their power-play sucked. So they'll score by committee and the power-play will be better. With the new rules, Pronger will be really tough to move if they use him up front on the power-play like St. Louis did at times. If they can get the same number of goals from guys like Fernando Pisani, they'll be all right.

They want a group of people on the House Ethics Committee who are going to go to extraordinary lengths to keep Tom DeLay from going down or being embarrassed yet again, which embarrasses them all, they believe, with whats been going on down in Texas.

Andrzej Wajda

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

We see people like Senator Sessions, Senator Colburn, Senator Brownback all on the judiciary committee strong pro-lifer's voting for and encouraging good pro-life legislation.

Susan Collins

We should use the commission's recommendations as a thoughtful and informed guide. That does not mean that this committee will be a rubber stamp, ... The final shape of our restructuring legislation will be determined by what we learn at these hearings.

We will have an oversight committee that can work as a recommending body, work with me and work with the board, and help us do the things that we want to see done in the Priority Two list. The committee will help us get deeper into that list with the money that we have left after we do the Priority One projects.

When she actually installed her design, it was not what we had as an organization or a committee approved.

Sandy Lyle

But my name could be in the 'tumbler' to be drawn out. I don't know how it is decided. It is all down to the committee and what they want from their captain.

The race committee did a superb job. They had to shorten the course once or twice, solve problems and keep things moving.

There is no higher priority for the members of this committee than protect the security of the United States.

E. O. Wilson

There is so much this committee can accomplish.