Best Committee Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I don't like too many cooks in the kitchen, and I don't like committee decisions.”

“One of the roles of the Treasury committee is to look under the bonnet of the financial services sector to shine a light on any of its shortcomings.”

“Instead of wasting time on proposals which are difficult to forge consensus on, such as public nomination and party nomination, it's better to focus the discussion on how to form the nominating committee and the nomination process.”

“It is shameful that the working committee of United Nation Security Council has raised serious question on India's ability to fight against terrorism, and the government should take note of it.”

“The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.”

“The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.”

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

“I have decided to launch an Exploratory Committee to examine whether I should run for President in 2016.”

“I had the privilege of knowing and working with Norman Borlaug - who has been aptly described by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee as the greatest hunger fighter of our time - for nearly 50 years.”

“Any proposal that would usurp or water down the rights of the nominating committee would not be able to receive political support.”

“I believe in a running back by committee. Always have. Always been taught that way.”

“In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now.”

“I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.”

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

“The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth.”

“The Committee to Save America. Have you ever heard anything more smug, more pompous but - most importantly - more anti-democratic? Because it turns out that the Committee to Save America was really the Committee to Save the American Establishment.”

“As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I have made our nation's response to cyberwarfare a primary focus.”

“My deal is you start as far to the right as you can get, and go to the conference committee with the Senate, and hopefully end up with something you can live with.”

“I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.”

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

“This person should not be directly connected with the President Ford Committee nor should he be seen as a member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party. He should be someone like Laird or Rogers Morton.”

“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.”

“I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.”

“We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.”

“This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon.”

“The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs.”

“In 2000, Trump could have won the Reform Party nomination. I chaired his presidential exploratory committee.”

“I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.”

“I will continue utilizing my position on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to fight for N90 employees and keep their jobs on Long Island.”

“I would deal with President Trump's business no different than I would deal with any other business that comes before the committee.”

“As a member of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, I will work hard to ensure the interests of Oak Ridge and Y-12 continue to be represented to ensure Tennessee remains a leader in keeping America safe.”

“I love serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, and I have especially enjoyed my time on the Ways and Means Committee.”

“I would come to New York, work, and then get out of New York. I didn't go out to dinner with other people on the Management Committee. I didn't socialize. I didn't politick.”

“Most automakers develop multiple options for a single project. Then they present those options to a committee of executives who decide which one to go with. That takes a lot of time.”

“The future is female right now in the Republican Party. Kellyanne Conway just ran the first successful presidential race in history as a woman. I am the second woman ever to lead the Republican National Committee.”

“When I started my recording career, I hoped that someday the Grammy committee would notice something.”

“Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.”

“If I were on a committee, I'd be wasting my time.”

“I will term-limit myself probably before I would have enough seniority to get a committee chairmanship.”

“It's an honor to be named to the NFL Competition Committee.”

“I think that is a very important milestone in our economic history that the monetary policy is now determined through a committee process where there are both independent committee members and representation from the RBI.”

“We had something in the United States called, which is called CFIUS, which is the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. My husband used to be one of the lawyers on that committee.”

“The monetary policy committee could either keep rates constant, increase them, or bring them down. There are three options possible compared to when it is accommodative.”

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

“It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.”

“The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.”

“All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.”

“Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?”

“If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.”

“You do not walk into any hearing or committee meeting and reveal confidential communications with the president of the United States, who's entitled to receive confidential communications in your best judgment about a host of issues.”

“As you know in this committee, we have all of HUD, and HUD is responsible for so many programs that determine the quality of life for women and families.”

“When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.”

“What is interesting in Washington, D.C., is I've never missed a vote. The veterans' committee keeps track of hearings, and I've never missed a hearing or a vote on the VA 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.”

“This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it.”

“The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.”

“The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America.”

“We like to think of the '60s as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and a little bit of friction - no, there were all of these different groups. There was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panthers, Martin and Malcolm, but also the Whitney Youngs of the world, the Bayard Rustins of the world.”

“Since 2000, it's been a privilege and honor for me to be on the competition committee. And our main focus... is player safety.”

“I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder.”

“It is clear that Michael Cohen was not truthful with the House Intelligence Committee, which is all the more reason that we never should have ended our investigation.”

“The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.”

“For me, if I have done my duty, the continued approbation of Congress and the Marine Committee will make me rich indeed, and far more than reward me for a life of service devoted from principles of philanthropy, to support the dignity of human nature.”

“The International Committee of the Red Cross visits roughly half a million detainees in nearly 100 countries each year. It's our job to try to prevent and put an end to torture and ill-treatment.”

“So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.”

“I was on the elections committee in my last session in the state House of Representatives.”

“It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.”

“If I had my way there would be a philosopher sitting round the table on every committee and in every boardroom.”

“That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals.”

“Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.”

“I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events.”

“The Ways and Means Committee for me has this opportunity to work with programs where I can take my parents' sense of community and make it work.”

“Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.”

“But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic.”

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

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

“I do believe very much in movie as a one-man-show. I think that where I've watched movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.”

“I am proud to work with the House Homeland Security Committee to provide DHS with the best tools to defend its networks.”

“And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.”

“As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the region to create jobs and improve the area infrastructure.”

“When I was working on 'Homeland,' there was a consultant who helped me a lot... I went to Washington and met with my consultant there, and he actually organised a lunch with several people from the Intelligence Committee.”

“You can't serve on every committee. But you can know what happened, what the debate was, who said what.”

“I've served on the International Relations Committee.”

“Shortly after Senator Eugene J. McCarthy died in 2005 the age of 89, I became an honorary member of the committee starting a fellowship in McCarthy's name at his alma mater, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.”

“May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!”

“Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!”

“There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small 'p' isn't just about darkened committee rooms, endless meetings - it is about giving people the right to make decisions about our lives.”

“What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.”

“Few Americans realize it, but the United Nations is driving to take control over the Internet. You remember, the folks who want a worldwide income tax and who put Syria and Iran on their Human Rights Committee.”

“We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big.”

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

“Adrian Peterson isn't running by committee.”

“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.”

“Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee - a tradition I'd like very much to continue.”

“And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.”

“Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism.”

“With 'Kidnapped,' there didn't seem to be a sure hand guiding it: everything had to be run-up-the-pole, so to speak, and there seemed to be a large committee, every day fighting about what the show was about.”

“I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but the Nobel Committee called me, and, 'You got the Nobel Prize.' So, I was so, so happy, and I was so surprised.”

“If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.”

“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.”