Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

Expenditures rise to meet income.

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

If there is a way to delay an important decision the good bureaucracy public or private will find it.

Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will eventually harm our nation and our allies. Every moment we delay allows him to grow stronger.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

Delay is preferable to error.

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.

Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry.

You may delay, but time will not.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay in the advent of help from the loyal States.

I mean, it's been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It's been kind of difficult.

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.

Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.

Delay in justice is injustice.

I grew up in Tom DeLay's district.

I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard.

While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.