| "The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee." »Lester J. Pourciau |
| "The world is proof that God is a committee." »Bob Stokes |
| "A camel is a horse designed by committee." »Sir Alec Issigonis |
| "If you see a snake, just kill it. Don't appoint a committee on snakes." »H. Ross Perot |
| "What is a committee A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary." »Richard Harkness |
| "I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat" »Will Rogers |
| "A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." »Sir Barnett Cocks |
| "One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household." »George Frost Kennan |
| "Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings." »George Will |
| "Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings." »George Will |
| "Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state." »David Dean Rusk |
| "Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm." »Pamela Ribon |
| "If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen." »Sam James Ervin, Jr. |
| "Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it." »I Ching |
| "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant." »John Stuart Mill |
| "committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done." »Fred Allen |
| "To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others." »Pope John Paul II |
| "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep." »Albert Einstein |
| "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I repeat myself." »Mark Twain |
| "A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member." »Johathan Edwards |
| "You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year." »William Jefferson Clinton |
| "What a wonderful thing it is to be sure of one's faith How wonderful to be a member of the evangelical church, which preaches the free grace of God through Christ as the hope of sinners If we were to rely on our works--my God, what would become of us" »George Frederick Handel |
| "Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam." »A. Whitney Griswold |
| "I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A member." »Groucho Marx |
| "I gather, young man, that you wish to be a member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic." »Winston Churchill |
| "In America every woman has her set of girl-friends some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who 'come out' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude." »Charles Caleb Colton |
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