Estelle Quotes

The only thing that deeply frustrates me is the slow speed [of major labels]. The more people involved, the slower the pace.

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.

God so loved the world, that he formed a committee, that whosoever attendeth on it should not perish, but have everlasting life in which to await a decision.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

For Christ’s sake, quit being bureaucrats.

Kitten, you still haven’t told her? Blimey, what are you waiting for?” “The Second Coming of Christ!” I snapped.

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.

Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.

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.

I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.

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.

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

Waiting makes me restless. When I'm ready, I'm ready.

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

The problem with Microsoft is that it's so committee-driven and slow.

The government is just too big, and we have to make it smaller; people are getting lost.

Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?

It is easier to waste time on bureaucratic reorganization than it is to accomplish anything concrete.

The bureaucracy is what we all suffer from..

[Cost-benefit analysis is used:] ... to produce lofty academic-sounding reasons for endless inaction.

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

I want you to cut through red tape. I want you to cut through bureaucracy. There is no excuse for inaction at this point.

This can has been kicked down the road for 60 years. Enough is enough!!!

When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?