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->'''Secretary:''' Of course you can see the Consul... But he's a very busy man... The appointment must be made in advance... You can begin by filling this form and then I'll see what I can do for you. Sign here. I said... sign here.\\
''[Magda snatches the paper from her hand.]''\\
'''Magda:''' Papers! Papers! Papers! But don't you understand? What shall I tell you to make you understand? My child is dead... John's mother is dying... My own life is in danger. I ask you for help, and all you give me is... papers. What is your name? Magda Sorel. Age? Thirty-three. Color of eyes? Color of hair? Single or married? Religion and race? Place of birth, Father's name, Mother's name?
-->-- ''Theatre/TheConsul''
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-->--'''Reverend Theo''', ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''
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->''"Quatermass...we've had dealings for a number of years. You as a driving force of an enterprise of TheFuture, I as one of the obstructive civil servants you had to contend with."''
-->-- '''Fowler''', ''Series/QuatermassII''
-->-- '''Fowler''', ''Series/QuatermassII''
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->''"Quatermass... we've had dealings for a number of years. You as a driving force of an enterprise of TheFuture, I as one of the obstructive civil servants you had to contend with."''
-->-- '''Fowler''',''Series/QuatermassII''
''[[Franchise/{{Quatermass}} Quatermass II]]''
-->-- '''Fowler''',
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-->-- '''Newsreader''', ''Series/ComeBackMrsNoah''
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'''[[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]]:''' [[GreenLanternRing This]] is my authorization, officer. I'm a deputized member of the Green Lanterns of the Universe. My authority comes from the Guardians, and I am recognized on every world in my space-sector, which is 2814. And I am a native of Earth.\\
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'''[[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]]:''' [[GreenLanternRing This]] This [The Green Lantern Ring] is my authorization, officer. I'm a deputized member of the Green Lanterns of the Universe. My authority comes from the Guardians, and I am recognized on every world in my space-sector, which is 2814. And I am a native of Earth.\\
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->'''Clerk''': You've told me your name is Michael Thompson and you're not with your National Guard unit. So Mike, why do you expect to receive your National Guard pay?\\
'''Thomson''': I'm sort of with the regular army now, and we're up in the mountains fighting, but-.\\
'''Clerk''': Are you actually in the regular army?\\
'''Thomson''': Not officially. I kind of got swept up during the retreat from Seattle\\
'''Clerk''': Then have your company clerk file a 451-A.\\
'''Thomson''': Look, out company clerk got his head blown off two hours ago! I need that money, and I need it sent to my ex-wife in Chicago before she-\\
'''Clerk''': I can only pay you, or an actual current spouse. That is if I could even pay you, which I can't unless I get a 451-A. For the ex-wife, I'm gonna need a declaration from a court.\\
'''Thomson''': A declaration from the court? Haven't you heard, we've been invaded.\\
'''Clerk''': That doesn't change anything. We have rules in this country for a reason, and-\\
'''Thomson''': I swear I'm going to beat these damn Russians. And then I'm going to hunt you down. How do you like that?\\
'''Clerk''': Yeah, hunt me down with a 451-A. And I need it in triplicate, Corporal.
-->--''VideoGame/WorldInConflict''
'''Thomson''': I'm sort of with the regular army now, and we're up in the mountains fighting, but-.\\
'''Clerk''': Are you actually in the regular army?\\
'''Thomson''': Not officially. I kind of got swept up during the retreat from Seattle\\
'''Clerk''': Then have your company clerk file a 451-A.\\
'''Thomson''': Look, out company clerk got his head blown off two hours ago! I need that money, and I need it sent to my ex-wife in Chicago before she-\\
'''Clerk''': I can only pay you, or an actual current spouse. That is if I could even pay you, which I can't unless I get a 451-A. For the ex-wife, I'm gonna need a declaration from a court.\\
'''Thomson''': A declaration from the court? Haven't you heard, we've been invaded.\\
'''Clerk''': That doesn't change anything. We have rules in this country for a reason, and-\\
'''Thomson''': I swear I'm going to beat these damn Russians. And then I'm going to hunt you down. How do you like that?\\
'''Clerk''': Yeah, hunt me down with a 451-A. And I need it in triplicate, Corporal.
-->--''VideoGame/WorldInConflict''
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-->-- '''Robert Epps''', ''[[Film/{{Transformers}} Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'', sums up [[JerkAss Galloway]] in short order
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-->-- '''Robert Epps''', ''[[Film/{{Transformers}} Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'', ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', sums up [[JerkAss Galloway]] in short order
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-->--'''Ford Prefect''', describing Vogons, ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''
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-->--'''Ford Prefect''', describing Vogons, ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''
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->'''Sir Humphrey:''' ''(after listing all the perks of being Prime Minister)'' What more does he want?\\
'''Bernard:''' I think he wants to govern Britain.\\
'''Sir Humphrey:''' Well, ''stop him'', Bernard!
-->--''[[Series/YesMinister Yes, Prime Minister]]''
'''Bernard:''' I think he wants to govern Britain.\\
'''Sir Humphrey:''' Well, ''stop him'', Bernard!
-->--''[[Series/YesMinister Yes, Prime Minister]]''
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->''German paratroopers have been waiting for new helmets for about ten years now. Now they have picked a helmet [...], they wrote a requirement for a new helmet, they picked one, and it's a helmet that has been used in the United States for many many years. The Bundestag has been told [...] for ten years now there's been a hold up on buying the damn helmet because the military's still testing the thing. [...] As the Commissioner says here, the helmet "is first tested again quite extensively to see whether it also fits on German heads and really protects as well as we would expect according to German standards" Now, one would think or hope that the United States military had done its own testing on a particular helmet, and one would also hope that German heads are roughly the same size and generally behave in the same way as American heads. We imagine German soldiers also don't like getting shrapnel in their heads, don't like being injured by blunt force trauma, and as a result a helmet, which is one of the oldest pieces of technology ever invented by humanity, a hard surface which is designed to protect one's head, is kinda gonna work the same in the United States as it would in Germany. And yet, ten years on, no helmet. Because you see, while Russia might do corruption, Germany does bureaucracy.''
-->'''Perun''', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jDUVtUA7rg Germany, rearmament, and Ukraine - "Why 100 billion Euro may not fix the German military"]]"
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->Whilst marching from Portugal to a position which commands the approach to Madrid and the French forces, my officers have been diligently complying with your requests which have been sent by H.M.ship from London to Lisbon and thence by dispatch to our headquarters. We have enumerated our saddles, bridles, tents and tent poles, and all manner of sundry items for which His Majesty’s Government holds me accountable. I have dispatched reports on the character, wit, and spleen of every officer. Each item and every farthing has been accounted for, with two regrettable exceptions for which I beg your indulgence. Unfortunately the sum of one shilling and ninepence remains unaccounted for in one infantry battalion’s petty cash and there has been a hideous confusion as the number of jars of raspberry jam issued to one cavalry regiment during a sandstorm in western Spain. This reprehensible carelessness may be related to the pressure of circumstance, since we are war with France, a fact which may come as a bit of a surprise to you gentlemen in Whitehall. This brings me to my present purpose, which is to request elucidation of my instructions from His Majesty’s Government so that I may better understand why I am dragging an army over these barren plains. I construe that perforce it must be one of two alternative duties, as given below. I shall pursue either one with the best of my ability, but I cannot do both: 1.To train an army of uniformed British clerks in Spain for the benefit of the accountants and copy-boys in London or perchance. 2. To see to it that the forces of Napoleon are driven out of Spain.
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->Whilst marching from Portugal to a position which commands the approach to Madrid and the French forces, my officers have been diligently complying with your requests which have been sent by H.M.ship from London to Lisbon and thence by dispatch to our headquarters. We have enumerated our saddles, bridles, tents and tent poles, and all manner of sundry items for which His Majesty’s Government holds me accountable. I have dispatched reports on the character, wit, and spleen of every officer. Each item and every farthing has been accounted for, with two regrettable exceptions for which I beg your indulgence. Unfortunately the sum of one shilling and ninepence remains unaccounted for in one infantry battalion’s petty cash and there has been a hideous confusion as the number of jars of raspberry jam issued to one cavalry regiment during a sandstorm in western Spain. This reprehensible carelessness may be related to the pressure of circumstance, since we are war with France, a fact which may come as a bit of a surprise to you gentlemen in Whitehall. This brings me to my present purpose, which is to request elucidation of my instructions from His Majesty’s Government so that I may better understand why I am dragging an army over these barren plains. I construe that perforce it must be one of two alternative duties, as given below. I shall pursue either one with the best of my ability, but I cannot do both: 1.To train an army of uniformed British clerks in Spain for the benefit of the accountants and copy-boys in London or perchance. 2. To see to it that the forces of Napoleon are driven out of Spain.
-->'''General Arthur Wellesley, Duke Wellington''', in a letter sent to some obstructive bureaucrats in London complaining about his army's record keeping.
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->''They can't think, they can't imagine, most of them can't even spell. They just...run things.''
-->--'''Ford Prefect''', describing Vogons, ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''
-->--'''Ford Prefect''', describing Vogons, ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''
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->''They can't think, they can't imagine, most of them can't even spell. They just... run things.''
-->--'''Ford Prefect''', describing Vogons,''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''
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->'''Mayor Vaughn''': I don't think either of one you are familiar with our problems.\\
'''Hooper''': I think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and BITES YOU ON THE ASS!
-->--''Film/{{Jaws}}''
-->--'''Ford Prefect''', describing Vogons,
->'''Mayor Vaughn''': I don't think either of one you are familiar with our problems.\\
'''Hooper''': I think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and BITES YOU ON THE ASS!
-->--''Film/{{Jaws}}''
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->''"Quatermass...we've had dealings for a number of years. You as a driving force of an enterprise of the Future, TheFuture, I as one of the obstructive civil servants you had to contend with."''
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->''"The junior Mr Popplewick is not permitted to expect anyone."''
-->--''Series/DoctorWho'', "Trial of a Time Lord"
-->--''Series/DoctorWho'', "Trial of a Time Lord"
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->''"Quatermass, we've had dealings for a number of years. You as a driving force of an enterprise of the future; I as one of the obstructive civil servants you have to contend with."''
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-->-- '''Fowler''', ''Series/QuatermassII''
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->''I like bats much better than bureaucrats.''
-->--'''Creator/CSLewis'''
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->''"I think you all know that I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.'"''
-->--'''UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan'''
->''People vastly overestimate the ability of central planners to improve on the independent action of diverse individuals. What I've learned watching regulators is that they almost always make things worse. If regulators did nothing, the self-correcting mechanisms of the market would mitigate most problems with more finesse. And less cost.''
-->--'''John Stossel'''
-->--'''UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan'''
->''People vastly overestimate the ability of central planners to improve on the independent action of diverse individuals. What I've learned watching regulators is that they almost always make things worse. If regulators did nothing, the self-correcting mechanisms of the market would mitigate most problems with more finesse. And less cost.''
-->--'''John Stossel'''
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->''You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.''
-->--'''Thomas Sowell'''
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->''People vastly overestimate the ability of central planners to improve on the independent action of diverse individuals. What I've learned watching regulators is that they almost always make things worse. If regulators did nothing, the self-correcting mechanisms of the market would mitigate most problems with more finesse. And less cost.''
-->--'''John Stossel'''
