There is no more great men; there is only great committees.
In the course of time, each committee is to a large degree co-opted by a department of government ... The committee becomes an advocate of the program over which it has authority, and goes to the House of the Senate as an advocate.
I will term-limit myself probably before I would have enough seniority to get a committee chairmanship.
The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA.
Hell hath no fury like a committee chairman whose jurisdiction is being challenged.
Wilbur Mills knows that he was chairman of Ways and Means before I got here and that he'll still be chairman after I've gone—and he knows I know it.
[The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room.
If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.
