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1 " When it comes to matters of dealing with the Government, one has to go through red tape just to get to the actual red tape. "
― J.Adam Snyder
2 " The NSA?" " Yeah, they called and offered to help out. Same software they use for enhancing spy satellite imagery." Venkat shrugged. " It's amazing how much red tape gets cut when everyone's rooting for one man to survive. "
3 " I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature. "
― Edward Bellamy , Looking Backward: 2000-1887