Every political system is flawed. And every bureaucracy is corrupt.
The wheels of bureaucracy tend to move at their own speed.
Sometimes with the bureaucracy, the one hand don’t know what the other is all about.[to Stringer]
I’m not sure of your experience with the federal government. Department of Interior, in particular. It is a snake that speaks from its tail so it may save its mouth for striking.[to Beth]
Any bureaucracy that functions in secret inevitably lends itself to corruption.