Neal Boortz Quotes

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

The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace.

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

Anyone who's ever filed a tax return or visited the Department of Motor Vehicles understands that government does two things well: spend our money and waste our time.

Sometimes I feel frustration at the bureaucracy for not moving fast enough to deliver in the way that I would prefer. But that is probably because I have worked for many years in the civil society, which tends to move much faster than government.

I think there is a lot of fat in the government.

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

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.

This is government. There is no entertainment.

Everybody who goes into government gets somewhat chewed up in the process. Being a senior appointee is like being at a startup, only more so: You run into opposition from the entrenched oligopoly of contractors whose business model is to extract as much money from government as possible for doing as little as possible.

I ... can sniff out a bureaucracy when I see it coming [in new legislation.]

[Describing the White House:] ... temple of inconvenience.

Getting the U. S. Government to do anything is like herding ducks with a broom.

Government on its own is always inefficient.

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.

I can see how paperwork and foolishness can destroy something.

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.

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

The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

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

It's that government bureaucracies crush innovation. We are falling further and further behind in our government.

It takes our government an awful lot of time to do most things competently, and that's part of the problem here.

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

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.