Bureaucracy Quotes

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

Remove the document—and you remove the man.

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Things there are no solution to: Inflation, bureaucracy & dandruff.

We need to get rid of all remnants of bureaucracy and bureaucratic thinking, and start thinking like entrepreneurs again.

I sighed. I hated the maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with it is to smile and act stupid. That way, no one gets confused.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.

The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn't kill. He lets it live. Because you can't kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever.

Paperwork is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of life where none exists.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.

So many signatures for such a small heart.

We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.

I don't want a lot of bureaucracy... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism.

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.

bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.

A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.

In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action.

We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.

Be prepared for the creation of an intrusive bureaucracy to police the ordinance by examining the books and payroll ledgers of businesses.

As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.

Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.

The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japans brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.

That is why I strongly believe we should working in Congress to make America a better place to run a business by reducing the costly burdens of bureaucracy and red tape.

I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.

In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims.

We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.