Quotes about Committee

The committee has again been reminded that every human effort is flawed

Douglas Thornton [an English Christian missionary to Cairo, Egypt with the Church Missionary Society from 1898-1907] was often more amusing than he tried to be. He had a delightful way of mixing up two kindred proverbs or idioms. Once he told his companions that he always had two strings up his sleeve. They then asked him if he had another card to his bow. Such exchanges enliven heavy committee eetings and create wholesome laughter.

The Ways and Means Committee is supposed to find ways to divide up the means.

When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

The work of the Energy Subcommittee of the Science, Space and Technology Committee is critical to our region.

A committee is a group of the unwilling chosen form the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

We invited HP executives to participate in the management and in the board. HCL had this concept of corporate officers since inception in 1999. We had a remuneration committee. Now everyone is talking about nomination and remuneration committee. We had this from 1999.

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.