If you carry this resolution, you will send a Foreign Secretaryöwhoever he may beönaked into the conference chamber.You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

-Bevan, Aneurin
  Labour Party conference speech against unilateral disarmament, Oct.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

-Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott Key
Note Books, E, in Edmund Wilson (ed)  The Crack-Up (1945).

Nowadays a sales conference resembles a Passion play: everybody is invited to participate and marvel at the drama.

-Scribner, Charles,Jr
In the Company ofWriters: A Life in Publishing.

O, that it were possible, We might but hold some two days'conference With the dead!

-Webster,John
  The Duchess of Malfi, act 4, sc.2.