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• Bureaucrat, n.: A person who cuts red tape sideways. -- J. McCabe
• Bureaucrat, n.: A politician who has tenure.
• bureaucrat, n: A politician who has tenure.
• Homer: Listen here: my name is Homer J. Simpson. You guys think I'm dead, but I'm not.
  Now I want you to straighten this out without a lot of your bureaucratic red tape and mumbo- jumbo!...
• Bureaucrats cut red tape -- lengthwise.
• Politicians cut red tape....LENGTHWISE