A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

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.

Groupism at lower level is known as union, while the same thing at higher level is known as committee.

I wouldn't say we were unprepared,

They were completely unprepared -- as bad off as we were before Andrew.