Dan Bongino Quotes

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

Competence is the enemy of change!

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

Seabeck is slow to change.

[Independent Federal] agencies, like other bureaucracies don’t like being transformed.. They have cultures and they want to preserve those cultures.

Any company faces big challenges during transformation. People are accustomed to going ahead on the existing track. Even when they know there are problems, the first reaction is to protect the old way.

Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Professional opinion is almost inevitably against changes.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

The adherents of the old order have a powerful ally in the natural law of inertia inherent in humanity which is … a natural defense against change.

Nobody wants to change.

Governments today are organizations of elderly men who know no other to work and govern than the ways of their youth.

In the absence of a crisis, the status quo in Washington is more or less set in cement, as advocacy groups and turf-conscious government officials are able to thwart change.

The establishment can't change. It can't give people anything different; it can't make the turn.

I realised how much the system did not want to change.

My 'if it's not broken, don't fix it' type attitude might have held me back and made me complacent.

You don't want to fix things that aren't broken, so that kind of stops you from make changes.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction