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"It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money."
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"But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested."
"I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious."
"The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine."
"If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork."
"The only problem that ever really seems to bother empire builders is bureaucracy. Before a new colony on the frontier could be founded, the Senate and Triumvirate would have to pass the plan. Factors influencing the High Lords decision would include, among others, the number of people needed to found the colony and whether this would result in any significant population shift. Another, more critical factor would be whether Tactical Defense could spare the ships or the manpower to patrol the area."
"Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy."
"Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records."
"Taxes for people with too much damned time on their hands."
"Nobody likes having a problem, but having a convoluted, bureaucratic one is even more galling."
"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."
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"The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics."
"There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring."
"I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics."
"We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do."
"People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans."
"People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'"
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