Administrative Burden Quotes

Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

To safeguard the people's money what we call red tape is tied around all government activity until the really efficient honest public servant has a somewhat difficult time, but we are still laboring under the theory that the majority of the world is dishonest.

The government generally is just too top-heavy.

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.

The civil list is so large that a personal knowledge of any large number of the applicants is impossible. The President must rely upon the representations of others, and these are often made inconsiderately and without any just sense of responsibility.

The bureaucracy is what we all suffer from..

A lot of what is called 'public service' consists of making hoops for other people to jump through. It is a great career for those who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

When you get big, there's a tendency to get caught up in process and bureaucracy.

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.

In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.

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

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.

So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles.

There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.

[Martin] Van Buren says he considers it as a misfortune when any office to be filled by him becomes vacant, and thinks patronage rather a burden than a benefit.

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

One must realise that it is not a child's play to run a government.

It is easier to waste time on bureaucratic reorganization than it is to accomplish anything concrete.

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

I can see how paperwork and foolishness can destroy something.

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.

The greatest threat we've had to economic growth has been that those in industry don't know what is expected of them. Rules come that are outside of statutes. Rules get changed midway. It creates vast uncertainty and paralysis, and re-establishing a vigorous commitment to rule of law is going to help a lot.

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