Quotes About Committee

The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America.

The "Ways & Means Committee" is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

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

There is two things that tickle the fancy of our citizens, one is let him act on a committee, and the other is promise him to let him walk in a parade. What America needs is to get more mileage out of our parades.

From such a society a committee might be appointed, whose business it should be to procure all the information they could upon the subject, to receive contributions, to enquire into the characters, tempers, abilities and religious views of the missionaries, and also to provide them with necessaries for their undertakings.

A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.

It is almost painful for me to watch some of the VRML initiatives. It just seems so obviously the wrong way to do something. All of this debating, committee forming, and spec writing, and in the end, there isn't anything to show for it. Make something really cool first, and worry about the spec after you are sure it's worth it!

Is there a God? Yeah, but there's not just one God. There's a whole lot of gods, because one God couldn't have possibly made so many mistakes all by Himself. This had to be done by committee.

Mr. Dingell is just plain Mr. Dingell. And when he gets to be chairman of the Commerce Committee, he doesn't let it go to his head. However, he thinks he would be a very, very good chairman.

This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.

The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.

The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.

So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.

The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

One historian has called TICOM, short for Target Intelligence Committee, "the last great secret of World War II.