There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.

- Charles Bass

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

- Charles Kettering

The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.

- Ben Macintyre

Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?

- Burt Lancaster

My deal is you start as far to the right as you can get, and go to the conference committee with the Senate, and hopefully end up with something you can live with.

- Blake Farenthold

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

- Bill Flores

I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations.

- Betty Hill

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.

- Barney Frank

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.

- Bill Sienkiewicz

Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee - a tradition I'd like very much to continue.

- Al Franken

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

- Anthony Sampson

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

- Alec Issigonis

Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.

- Angus King

If it's necessary to join a caucus and get a committee assignment, I'll do it.

- Angus King

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

- Arthur Goldberg

Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents.

- Alberto Gonzales

Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.

- Anatoly Chubais

I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder.

- Alber Elbaz

In performance capture roles, it's not a committee of animators that author the role, it's the actor. I think that's a significant thing for people to understand.

- Andy Serkis