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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.

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

'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

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

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.

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

Corporations always are controlling things, and we have the ability every day to do something about that. Every day.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

We know they are doing their job in committee, that they are brilliant men, smart men, and that they are on the job all the time. We're just human beings down here-all different. We take all these things into consideration. You can't help it.

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