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

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

Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

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.

I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

If one committee controlled your entire budget, I think you might make some effort to build up personal relationships. I think it is a no-brainer.

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

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

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.

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.