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• Bureocrats do not change the course of the ship of state. They merely adjust the compass.
• Station experiencing difficulty do not adjust your set.
• Riker: "The rules on this ship do not change just because Ro Laran decides they do.
  -- "Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2...
• The ship of state is the only ship that leaks from the top down.
• We are experiencing system trouble -- do not adjust your terminal.
• Two battleships assigned to the training squadron had been at sea on maneuvers in heavy weather for several days.
  I was serving on the lead battleship and was on watch on the bridge as night fell....
• How many bureaucrats -- does it take to screw in a light bulb?
  Five - one to change the light bulb and the other four to fill out the Environmental Impact Statement....
• And the fully armed nuclear warheads, are, of course, merely a courtesy detail.