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Committee Quotes

"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours."

Milton Berle, American Comedian

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

Alberto Gonzales, American Public Servant

Committee, Senate

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

Lady Bird Johnson, American First Lady

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

F. Lee Bailey, American Lawyer

Committee, Congress, Rights, Today

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

Fred Allen, American Comedian

"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."

Allan Sherman, American Musician

Committee, Day, Saying, Witty

"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."

Frank Moore Colby, American Educator

"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."

Pat Robertson, American Clergyman

Committee, President

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

John le Carre, English Writer

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

Robert Duvall, American Actor

Committee, Today

"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."

Robert Torricelli, American Politician

Committee, Gifts

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

Burt Lancaster, American Actor

"I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations."

Betty Hill, American Celebrity

Committee, Nations, United

"My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee."

Alton Brown, American Entertainer

Committee, Feeling

"And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee."

Stephen Breyer, American Judge

Committee, Senate

"I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant."

Anita Hill, American Celebrity

Committee, Information, May

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

Anthony Sampson, British Writer

Committee, Personality

"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."

Alvar Aalto, Finnish Architect

Committee, Nothing, Problems

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