Red Tape Quotes

• A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

  Harry S. Truman

  Humorous, Office, Political

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

  Richard Branson

  Tape, Red, Way

  Twitter post from Aug 7, 2014

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• Red tape has killed more people than bullets.

  Ben Bova

  People, Tape, Bullets

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

  Wernher von Braun

  Two, Tape, Red

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

  Charles Dickens

  Hands, Feet, Office

  Charles Dickens (1863). “David Copperfield”, p.276

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

  Vito Russo

  Dying, Tape, Red

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

  Frances O'Grady

  Mean, Rights, Tape

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.

  Bobby Jindal

  Effort, Community, Tape

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

  Travis Kalanick

  Fighting, Innovation, Tape

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

  Roy Barnes

  Tape, Cover Ups, Double Standard

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• 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.

  Max Weber

  Mean, Thinking, People

  1922 Collected in Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich (eds) Economy and Society (1978), ch.3.

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

  James Q. Wilson

  Red Lipstick, Tape, Way

  "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1, 1995.

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• It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

  Nigel Farage

  School, Safety, Green

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• 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.

  John Hickenlooper

  Cutting, Entrepreneur, Trying

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• 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.

  David Gilmour

  Thinking, Two, Three

  "David Gilmour Talks Pompeii Return: 'It's a Place of Ghosts'". Interview with Kory Grow, www.rollingstone.com. July 7, 2016.

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• We in Congress need to do everything possible to encourage and cultivate small businesses, so that they can expand and create jobs. Far too often, however, U.S. small businesses are impeded by government paperwork and bureaucratic red tape.

  Kay Hagan

  Jobs, Government, Needs

  "All-in-one stop for small business". www.politico.com. May 16, 2012.

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• 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.

  Michael Tanner

  Thinking, Government, Church

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• We can get rid of red tape.

  Charlie Daniels

  Tape, Red, Red Lips

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• 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.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Jobs, Taken, Tape

  "Europe: the continent for every type of unhappy" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2014.

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• All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency.

  Rosellen Brown

  Education, Children, Tape

  Rosellen Brown (1998). “Civil Wars”, Delta

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Holtzman

  Running, Nice, Thinking

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• 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.

  George Osborne

  Jobs, Government, Trying

  "George Osborne pledges battle against 'anti-business culture' amid bonus row" by Jill Treanor and Larry Elliott, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2012.

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• 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.

  Tyler Florence

  Thinking, Ideas, Two

  "Q&A With Tyler Florence, Host of the Food Network’s Great Food Truck Race". Interview with Sarah Bennett, www.dmagazine.com. November 30, 2012.

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• 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.

  John Hickenlooper

  Jobs, Party, Cutting

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• 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.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Phones, Roots, Tape

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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