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

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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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• Red tape has killed more people than bullets.

  Ben Bova

  People, Tape, Bullets

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Corey Clark

  Order, People, Tape

  "Corey Clark says Paula Abdul 'Told me she loved me'", www.mtv.com. May 06, 2005.

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• I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.

  Idris Elba

  Thinking, Government, Cities

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• My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.

  Vince Cable

  Jobs, Mean, Cutting

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

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, America, Immigration

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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

  Fred Upton

  Growth, Expansion, Tape

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• 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.

  Christopher Bullock

  Reality, Needs, Tape

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• 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.

  John Shadegg

  Competition, Tape, Cost

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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