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I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.

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.

We have to make bureaucracy sexy.

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

I trust the individual over the bureaucracy.

We impugn the private sector, we impugn main street America, and the bureaucracy cannot be held to any different standard whatsoever.

As a bureaucracy becomes more established, it develops its own career structure. It is less dependent, and should be less dependent, on individual personalities. Absolutely no one is indispensable.

If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.