Norman R. Augustine Quotes

The Navajo Nation spends most of its time jumping through hoops.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Administrators are another curious consequence of a bureaucracy which has forgotten its reason for being

I confess to a prejudice against officialism and a dread of bureaucracy.

I ... can sniff out a bureaucracy when I see it coming [in new legislation.]

Every business action of the individual is supervised and hedged about with red tape and paternal restrictions.

There is no question that the federal government sometimes overdoes it in issuing rules and regulations.

Sometimes I think people live in a parallel universe when they say all we need are a few more regulations.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

We've got a very poor record on unnecessary red tape; extra cost to business; people being asked to do things they don't need to; over the top regulation, misinterpreted regulation, poor guidelines.

I can see how paperwork and foolishness can destroy something.

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described as positive and beneficial measures.

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

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

We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.

I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are 'procedures in place.'

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

When I visit local communities, people often complain that they need the approval of several dozen government departments to get something done or to start a business, and people are quite frustrated about this.

No government body is more notorious for over-legislation than the Department of Trade and Industry.