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Quotes About Red tape

I adopted a baby. I wanted a highway, but it was a lot of red tape.
~ Margaret Smith
Bureaucrats complicate. It gives them more work to do. It gives them job security. It means promotions as ever more bureaucrats are added to the Ministry of Redundancy.
~ Unknown
Sweetie, this is Hell. We invented paperwork.
~ Unknown
Bureaus are extrusions from the body politic - they are pus
~ Martin H. Fischer
For Trump, as for many showmen or press release entrepreneurs, the enemy of everything is complexity and red tape, and the solution for everything is cutting corners. Bypass or ignore the difficulties; just move in a straight line to the vision, which, if it's bold enough, or grandiose enough, will sell itself.
~ Michael Wolff
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.
~ Mitch Daniels
Bureaucrats -- monkeys who hear no evil and see no evil -- are first in line for promotion.
~ Nevada Barr
We have seen a lack of stability over 30 years and four governors, said Nicholas Alahverdian. We have seen a lack of care. And now — in an election year — we have seen a complete and utter lack of bureaucratic mastery to obliterate the red tape and provide tangible, enduring solutions to children and adolescents in state care.
~ Unknown
It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.
~ Nigel Farage
In the department of...but it would be better not to say in which department.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Bureaucrats!" Professor Torgeson said, like it was a really bad word, and her Vinland accent got thicker, the way it always did when she got angry.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Fucking civil servants, always stand in the way of progress.
~ Peter F. Hamilton