The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
While I live a busy life, the pace ebbs and flows.
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.
Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.
When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.
We're a country of rule of law, and rule of law doesn't move fast, especially in an entity as big the U.S. government.
There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.
If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
My friends call me a 'pace-setter.' Sometimes I am impatient, I think, but you must be fast and flexible in business because uncertainty is the only certainty in life.
People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.
The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have to manage ourselves in the context of time.