Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
The optimum committee has no members.
Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
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.
A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.