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You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and who gets it.

Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats.

It saddens me when public officials and bureaucrats are criticized for ulterior motives, none of which I have ever found in a government bureaucrat, or when someone personalizes disagreements.

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.

I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

Individuals usually do a better job than the government.

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.