Best Red Tape Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.”

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Book:Debbie.

Source: Debbie.

“Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and I did not put on an ounce of makeup. I grabbed a worn out black oversized jacket to cover myself with even though it is warm outside. I have made conscious decisions lately to look like less of what I felt a male would want to see. I want to disappear.”

Source: Debbie.

“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called the cops he would kill every single one of them and I knew that he had the potential and the means to do it”

Source: Debbie.

“bureaucrat: (n.) career sadist who uses red tape to immobilize victims.”

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Book:The Angel's Dictionary

Source: The Angel's Dictionary

“On occasions of this sort it was, I must admit, very pleasurable to be a monarch: to be able to get important things done by smothering stupid opposition with a single authoritative word.”

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Book:Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina

Source: Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina

“Civil service is the main engine of democracy, we just gotta make it corruption-proof and efficient.”

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Book:Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?”

Source: Debbie.

“The NSA?" "Yeah, they called and offered to help out. Same software they use for enhancing spy satellite imagery." Venkat shrugged. "It's amazing how much red tape gets cut when everyone's rooting for one man to survive.”

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Book:The Martian

Source: The Martian

“Ten apathetic government officials can do more damage to a country, than a hundred crooked ones.”

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Book:Woman Over World: The Novel

Source: Woman Over World: The Novel

“Bloated bureaucracies crush aspirations, suppress ingenuity, and grind responsiveness to a crawl.”

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Book:Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others

Source: Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others

“Sometimes he would rather battle a demon from Hell than grapple with the bureaucracy of man.”

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Book:Vocation of a Gadfly

Source: Vocation of a Gadfly

“Study politicians, you'll understand wildlife. Study patriotic citizens, you'll learn horticulture. Study the soldiers, you'll understand hypnosis. Study bureaucrats, you'll understand narcolepsy.”

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Book:Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“It is not a single crime when a child is photographed while sexually assaulted (raped.) It is a life time crime that should have life time punishments attached to it. If the surviving child is, more often than not, going to suffer for life for the crime(s) committed against them, shouldn't the pedophiles suffer just as long? If it often takes decades for survivors to come to terms with exactly how much damage was caused to them, why are there time limits for prosecution?”

Source: Debbie.

“The story of my birth that my mother told me went like this: "When you were coming out I wasn't ready yet and neither was the nurse. The nurse tried to push you back in, but I shit on the table and when you came out, you landed in my shit." If there ever was a way to sum things up, the story of my birth was it.”

Source: Debbie.

“John was still making comments regarding violent things that he shouldn't, but I hoped he was just being a big mouth. Nobody was going to listen to me anyway.”

Source: Debbie.

“Bureaucratic apathy is worse than bureaucratic corruption.”

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Book:Woman Over World: The Novel

Source: Woman Over World: The Novel

“Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape.”

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Author:Michael Tanner

“However many people complain about the "red tape," it would be sheer illusion to think ... continuous administrative work can be carried out in any field except by means of officials working in offices.... The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dillettantism.”

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Author:Max Weber

“Every step that produces a single job for a currently unemployed European should be taken. Every centimetre of red tape that puts someone out of work must be torn up.”

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Author:Timothy Garton Ash

“All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency.”

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Book:Civil Wars

Source: Civil Wars

“People say nice things to me -- like that I ought to run for president -- which tells me that they like me. But I have my own deadline for how long I should be in Washington. I think you can get accustomed to red tape and many unfair things that go on in government. Once you stop getting angry about inefficiencies, waste, and injustice, you ought to get out. That's my time limit.”

“I think food trucks are the new answer to American fast food. The idea of raising two or three million dollars and going through red tape to open a restaurant, there's lots of barriers to success. There's a really easy jumping place for food trucks. It's very hip and acceptable for new chefs to open a food truck first.”

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Author:Tyler Florence

“I am designating a new Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers to cut through red tape and ensure that the full resources of our federal government are leveraged to assist the workers, communities, and regions that rely on our auto industry.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.”

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Author:Wernher von Braun

“"Thanks," many small businesspeople are saying, "but no thanks. Forget the government credits and loan programs, and just get rid of all the bureaucratic red tape and high taxes which make it hard to build businesses, hire employees and meet our payroll."”

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Author:Oliver DeMille

“That is why I strongly believe we should working in Congress to make America a better place to run a business by reducing the costly burdens of bureaucracy and red tape.”

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Author:Michael K. Simpson

“The income tax has spawned an intrusive bureaucracy, creating so much complexity and red tape that millions of ordinary citizens have to go get some accountant to fill out the forms for them - and then sign under penalty of perjury that it was done right. If you knew how to do it right, you wouldn't have to go to somebody else to have it done, would you?”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“There are those who are trying to create an anti-business culture in Britain - and we have to stop them. At stake are not pay packages for a few but jobs and prosperity for the many.”

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Author:George Osborne

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

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Author:Richard Branson

“We too often hear about red tape but what they mean is the vital rights of workers.”

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Author:Frances O'Grady

“I remember Adrian [Maben, director] had lots of problems with red tape and dealing with stuff. I think we lost two or three days. Maybe those were the days we had to walk around the summit of Vesuvius, and we went around to the sulfur pits where the ground is bubbling. It's near here. It's fantastic.”

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Author:David Gilmour

“You see the kind of approach, because he [Doanld Trump] is a businessman. He's like, I'm going to pick up the phone, I'm gonna call that CEO and we're going to talk about this directly, instead of getting mired in a lot of the way down, you know, bureaucracy and red tape and having 25 assistants or deputies talk to somebody instead of going directly to the root of the problem.”

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Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“I look at some of the things that Donald Trump will do around cutting red tape, reducing bureaucracy, helping entrepreneurs, helping businesses grow more rapidly, more access to capital - I'm all for it. That's all stuff that I've been trying to do in Colorado.”

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Author:John Hickenlooper

“There's nothing wrong with the Democratic Party that talks more about - and more loudly about - jobs, and cutting red tape, and bureaucracy, making it easier for entrepreneurs to start jobs, making it easier for businesses to grow and create more jobs. That has historically been the wheelhouse of the Democratic Party.”

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Author:John Hickenlooper

“America is a nation of immigrants. And so the question is, how do we make legal immigration faster, less bureaucratic, cut the red tape?”

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Author:Barack Obama

“The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak.”

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Author:Roy Barnes

“Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.”

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Author:James Surowiecki

“We cannot afford the EPA's continued expansion of red tape that is slowing economic growth and threatening to entangle millions of small businesses.”

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Author:Fred Upton

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

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Book:David Copperfield

Source: David Copperfield

“How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.”

“International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic excuse that softens the otherwise unendurable tedium of testimonial matches. Quite simply, they are rotten games staged to pick the public's pocket, tiresome red tape left over from an era when nations and players were still insular and therefore curious about each other's potential.”

“I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.”

Source: Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887

“The red tape for family members who want to speak to a loved one is a reality, ... The warehousing of prisoners is a reality. ... All of this needs to be looked at, not just medical care.”

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Author:Christopher Bullock

“In order for me to get through all the red tape and just allow people to just get at my talent, I've got to set the record straight. And you can't set half the record straight; when you tell it, you've got to tell it all.”

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Author:Corey Clark

“This is basically the last resort. I've been painted into a corner, and now I've sort of got to lay it all out in order for things to be straightened up. I've tried to move on with my life and my career for the last two years and do my own thing, and 'American Idol' and FOX, they've just been making it really tough for me to do that. So in order for me to get through all the red tape and just allow people to just get at my talent, I've got to set the record straight. And you can't set half the record straight; when you tell it, you've got to tell it all.”

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Author:Corey Clark

“I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.”

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Author:James Q. Wilson

“Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.”

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Author:John Shadegg

“Red tape has killed more people than bullets.”

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Author:Ben Bova

“If I'm dying from anything, it's from indifference and red tape.”

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Author:Vito Russo

“The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It's intense to fight the red tape.”

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Author:Travis Kalanick

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