Malcolm Forbes Quotes

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

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

Getting one bill passed is close to impossible. Ask any kid who has spent a summer in Washington, or better yet a semester, and can't understand how people tolerate its menu of constant frustration. Imagine mastering it.

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.

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

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

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.

Immigration comes up, but the issue that is on everybody's mind is the economy.

Government regulation is not a dangerous usurpation of your Constitutional rights. It's just a pain in the ass.

It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.

The bureaucracy is what we all suffer from..

The damned everlasting clatter for offices makes me feel like resigning.

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

Sometimes I think people live in a parallel universe when they say all we need are a few more regulations.

I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers' problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.

Just remember: if ever you feel weighed down by the bureaucracy and often mundanity of modern life, don't fight the frustration. Let it be the catalyst for whimsy.

I can see how paperwork and foolishness can destroy something.

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.

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.

We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations.

Wouldn't it be useful to explain the factors that actually allowed this to happen [Donald's Trump Presidency]. Like, for example, their frustration of the absolute shrinking of the middle class, the heroin epidemic, things like that. I don't see any of that.

My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.

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

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.