“Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving—how not to do it.Charles Dickens
“Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.Joseph Alois Schumpeter
“Skewered through and through with office pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.Charles Dickens
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth.Ronald Reagan