I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.
Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.
A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.
I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.
Tell the negativity committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.
The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.
In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
I have very strong views on TV. There's no diversity, there's no choice. Things are decided by committee.
Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever.
Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee - a tradition I'd like very much to continue.
'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding.
I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
