Quotations on committee

To get something done a committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.
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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.
-Charles F. Kettering
A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
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A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
-Milton Berle
When it comes to facing up to serious problems, each candidate will pledge to appoint a committee. And what is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. But it all sounds great in a campaign speech.
-Richard Long Harkness