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'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
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A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
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A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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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.
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Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
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Committee-a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
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Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
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Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
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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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If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
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If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.
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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.
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If Senator Reid had come to me and said, 'This is a problem,' which he never did, I would have said, 'Let's talk about it.' I would have said, 'Let's bring in the Intelligence Committee or the leaders, and let's talk about it in a civil, a dignified, a respectful way.
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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.
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In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a ''dictator'' substitutes himself for the central committee.
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It was my privilege to serve with Paul Ryan in the House and on the Ways and Means Committee. Ryan's vast experience and bold, reform-minded ideas were always evident. His knowledge of the federal budget is widely recognized.
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Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.
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