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Frustration with red tape and slow reform.

These quotes capture frustration with how officials slow down needed change, from hesitance over bold energy sector decisions to broader complaints about entrenched habits. See Government quotes for related themes.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Government
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Nov 07, 2020

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.

Quotes by Bob Riley

Government
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Nov 07, 2020

I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990.

Quotes by Anatoly Chubais

Clients
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Nov 07, 2020

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.

Quotes by Alan Keyes

Internet
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Nov 07, 2020

My own view is that the Internet should be run by technologists and engineers and business people, not by lawyers and bureaucrats here in the nation's capital.

Quotes by Ajit Pai

Others question why officials collect pay and perks while ordinary people see little benefit, or describe a centralized system where unelected officials shape what comes next. Continue with Business or Must quotes.

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