The Federal Bureaucracy Red tape is excessive regulation or rigid conformity to formal rules that is considered redundant or bureaucratic and hinders or prevents action or decision-making. It is usually applied to governments, corporations and other large organizations. Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. Mary McCarthy Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals. Donald Trump Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. Honore de Balzac The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine. J.S. Mill. Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. Franz Kafka Bureaucracy video 1 A Scholarly Critique A Day at the DMV A Young Bureaucrat's Positive Spin Congressman attacks the EPA Bureaucrats on the Phone