Bureaucracy
". . . skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape." - Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it." - JAMES H. BOREN, quoted in Time
"Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases." - JERRY BROWN, quoted in Wall Street Journal
"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism." - MARY MCCARTHY, in New Yorker