Mannie Fresh Quotes

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

Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.

Paperwork will ruin any military force.

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.

For Christ’s sake, quit being bureaucrats.

Superfluous bureaucracies and the system of file-keeping and paper-shuffling that is enforced by them … are totally alien to Islam

Our two greatest problems are gravity and paper work. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

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

Lacking a profit motive, workers in the government by and large have a different work ethic from those in private industry. When they could make one call, federal workers take a meeting. When they could find an answer on the Internet, they form a study committee. Instead of appointing one supervisor, they appoint five.

There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat.

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

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

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

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

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

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.

Should bureaucratic ways prevail and paper reign supreme? Should red tape and the Status Quo become our nation’s dream?

The bureaucracy is what we all suffer from..

A hospital ought to be a house of healing, not a monument to paperwork and bureaucracy.

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

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

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

It must be a source of great chagrin to those in charge to think of so many people being able to stick a stamp on a letter and drop it in a mail box without any trouble or suffering at all. They are probably working on a system this very minute, trying to devise some way in which the public can be made to fill out a blank, stand in line, consult some underling who will refer him to a superior, and then be made to black up with burned cork before they can mail a letter.