"Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must……" — P.J. O'Rourke
"Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us."
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578 Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your…
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Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
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The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go…
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There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it…
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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The…
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Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.
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Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.
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Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very…
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You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak -…
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Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which…
— Michele Bachmann
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
— Honore de Balzac
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Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.
— Christopher Bond
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The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant…
— Madeleine Albright
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The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right…
— Herman Cain
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Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government…
— Chris Chocola
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy…
— Francesca Annis
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Communism is what happens when atheism meets bureaucracy.
— Theodore Beale
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The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
— Eugene McCarthy
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Combination does not produce though mergers and combinations are still the accepted panacea. In Big business there appears to be…
— Reginald Fessenden
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Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths,…
— Ariel Dorfman
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Citizens everywhere, and especially soldiers, should remember that entrenched bureaucracy, whatever the level, can be overcome. You've got to stick…
— William G. Bainbridge
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