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Fred Allen

"A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary."

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Amber Hurdle

"They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee."

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Amber Hurdle

"Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents."

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"Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films."

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Amber Hurdle

"A committee is an animal with four back legs."

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee... This was all stuff that was previously known."

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"Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?"

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