Quotes About Committee

In reality, Rome had grown too big for lots of people to handle its vast affairs any longer by committee.  

Ferguson, testified about coronavirus to a committee of the British Parliament. Ferguson calls himself an epidemiologist, though he is not a physician and his doctorate is in theoretical physics.

Hence a report from Harvard's own "Committee on Raising the Standard": "Grades A and B are sometimes given too readily—Grade A for work of not very high merit, and Grade B for work not far above mediocrity. . . . One of the chief obstacles to raising the standards of the degree is the readiness with which insincere students gain passable grades by sham work." Except that report was written in—you saw this coming, didn't you?—1894.

All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.

What is interesting in Washington, D.C., is I've never missed a vote. The veterans' committee keeps track of hearings, and I've never missed a hearing or a vote on the VA committee.

I think it's time... that we reform Congress to the point where all public assistance comes in one single committee. One area where all public assistance can be located, and it will be easy to see all the duplications, all the waste, so much easier to see areas where fraud is running rampant.

Serving on the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight allows me to play a role making government more accountable by investigating waste, mismanagement, and improprieties.

If I were on a committee, I'd be wasting my time.

Instead of wasting time on proposals which are difficult to forge consensus on, such as public nomination and party nomination, it's better to focus the discussion on how to form the nominating committee and the nomination process.

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

In Nueva Esperanza, Honduras, community members pooled their resources and organized a local water committee that with CARE's technical guidance built a gravity-fed water system that now provides clean water directly to people's homes.

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.

Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

I will term-limit myself probably before I would have enough seniority to get a committee chairmanship.

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

Adrian Peterson isn't running by committee.

I'm proud to serve on the Senate Agriculture Committee.

You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.

As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.

Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.

I have decided to launch an Exploratory Committee to examine whether I should run for President in 2016.

I've been in Congress 14 years. I've been on the Appropriations Committee in which we are in charge of trying to move legislation.

I would deal with President Trump's business no different than I would deal with any other business that comes before the committee.