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Committee Quotes
"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours."
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"My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee."
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"I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president."
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"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."
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"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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"And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee."
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"I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant."
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"Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents."
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"Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?"
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"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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"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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"A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary."
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"Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee."
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