Sally Phillips Quotes

There's something about dealing with government agencies that makes you feel like a criminal.

Passport photos must have a neutral expression—that means no laughing, smiles, frowning. The mouth must be closed.

The problem in D.C. is that everything is on paper, and it's theoretical.

CIA is slowly turning into the Department of Agriculture. The agency has an advanced case of bureaucratic arteriosclerosis.

The government generally is just too top-heavy.

I never saw a bureaucracy produce a single barrel of oil.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

Government on its own is always inefficient.

State universities in Illinois are a microcosm of our state government - broken with work rules and administrative bureaucracy.

What drives me crazy is when you have a supervisor in government, and they report into 12 other supervisors. That's unacceptable.

What typically happens in government is the exact opposite of how things should work.

I don't have a birth certificate.

We do have our challenges. Some things don't always work right in Washington, and the anger you see from the electorate, I think, is a reflection of what's not working right.

Dia is the way my name was originally spelt. When I was applying for my passport for the Femina Miss India Contest, someone spelt my name as Diya. Since it was on my passport, I couldn't do much about it.

I got my first passport in 1989, when I was 28.

I've seen the government up close and personal, and for the most part, it's inefficient and hidebound, and it stifles creativity in any industry it clutches within its well-meaning but slimy tentacles.

News flash: The federal government is not the most efficient institution in the world. Taxpayers know that.

Don't make government work like a business... it's inherently inefficient.

Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit

We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

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

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

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.