Quotes About Inefficiency

State power has an unbroken record of inability to do anything efficiently, economically, disinterestedly or honestly; yet when the slightest dissatisfaction arises over any exercise of social power, the aid of the agent least qualified to give aid is immediately called for.

Waste is a tax on the whole people.

Washington is not good at getting things done.

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

Menstruation not only carries with it the connotation of a productive system that has failed to produce; it also carries the idea of production gone awry, making products of no use, not to specification, unsalable, wasted, scrap.

It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.

People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.

Historically, central planners have generally done a poor job of managing economic resources - this we've known since the time of the Pharaohs.

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.

I wonder how many illegal migrants fanned out across the country while I and others were subjected to the stone-faced, suspicious inefficiency of the Border Force?

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary

Year after year goes by, and nothing gets better. All we do is argue and debate and procrastinate. Any decent idea is amended to ineffectuality by the time it's gone half-way through the various committees it's obliged to pass through. The few people qualified to know what's what are talked to a standstill by ignorant people all around them.

Shit rolls downhill. Bureaucracy rolls faster.

You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.

You know you're a fool when what you're doing makes even the post office seem efficient.

It costs a lot to build bad products.

I knew where people were sleeping in the hallways, you know, instead of doing their job. I knew what systems weren't working.

Politics is involved when you don't tackle inefficiency and burden people with higher tariffs.

Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain.

bewildering patchwork of technologies that are inefficient, hard to change, and rigid.

The city governments of the United States are the worst in Christiandom - the most expensive, the most inefficient, and the most corrupt.