Emily," Drummer said, "do you know the one thing I am absolutely sure won't fix any of our problems? Another committee. - James S. A. Corey

Ah! I see what you're doing," Alex said. "You're trying to make flying out to Charon and dodging radiation flares sound like a good idea. It's that whole 'I'll put a shitty idea next to a really shitty idea so the first one looks shiny by comparison' thing.

“See, this is why I can’t ever be in command,” she said.
“Don’t like making tough calls with incomplete information?”
“More I’m not suicidally irresponsible,” she replied.

“Seems like the right tentacle ain’t keeping track of what the left tentacle’s up to,” Amos said.