Administrative Obstacles Quotes

We can delay and effectively stop for a temporary period of indefinite length the number of immigrants into the United States. We could do this by simply advising our consuls to put every obstacle in the way and to require additional evidence and to resort to various administrative devices which would postpone and postpone and postpone the granting of the visas.

I have tried for a year to work with the Telangana government.

Our government is the most successful contrivance the world has ever known for preventing things from being done.

The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

… the admirable purpose of Cabinet Ministers, bent on reforming their different departments, but dexterously 'blocked' by the permanent officials

The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

Instead of fighting terrorism, we were fighting bureaucratic inertia, an implacable enemy.

Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.

Permission from the government is an expensive commodity. New ideas rarely have this kind of support. Old ideas often have deep legislative connections to defend them against the new.

It often takes time for the Israeli government to get things done.

Remember, most of the bureaucrats voted for Hillary Clinton. Most of the bureaucrats deeply dislike what Trump is trying to accomplish, and most of the bureaucrats think they can't be fired, so they can outlast you.

This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of acrostics and anagrams devised by some officials who got around a table one night and tried to be funny.

It has been the case for some time that I have made myself dizzy thinking about the fact that the implementation of the Three-fold Program of the government, above all in the area of food and clothing, has been experiencing difficulties.

The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

Red tape will often get in your way. It's one of the reasons I often carry scissors!

Things there are no solution to: Inflation, bureaucracy & dandruff.

As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.

Sometimes I feel like there isn't enough Prozac in the world to make Environmental Protection Agency people feel better about their jobs. They're going out there, they're trying to protect Americans and then time and time and time again they get their knees cut off at the policy level.

The truth is that the E.U. constrains us in all manner of ways and throws reams of red tape around British businesses.