London Breed Quotes

It's that government bureaucracies crush innovation. We are falling further and further behind in our government.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.

The bureaucracy is what we all suffer from..

The major functions of the government are … operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.

Too often, researchers on the cusp of a new discovery are held back by needless red tape and paperwork, meaning their innovative work cannot be capitalised on.

The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be made manifest by the full complement of documents, files, veneered desks and cabinets - which convey the strict and inverse relationship between productivity and paperwork.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.

Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.

The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It's intense to fight the red tape.

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

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

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

All developmental activities for the common man such as education, healthcare, shelter and food distribution should be handled by reputed private sector institutions. It should be a competitive market in order to prevent the formation of monopolies.

We should be tough on a bureaucracy that fails to turn aid money into critical services for the poor.

Delay has the odor of the Beltway.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

People complain about bureaucracy. You haven't seen bureaucracy until you've seen bureaucracy in China.

Government is good at one thing. It knows how to cripple you and then hand you a crutch.

Government officials tend to become an obstacle when you try to do something new.