Bureaucracy Quotes

UN is made even more complex by the constant interplay of politics and bureaucracy and can certainly be bewildering for a novice.

They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back in three years. We couldn't stand the government. The bureaucracy kills you.

Yet the proletariat has not only a vanguard, but also a rearguard, and besides the proletariat there are the peasantry and the bureaucracy.

The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.

In all countries with a settled bureaucracy people used to say: The cabinets come and go, but the bureaus remain.

We have a system in the hands of bureaucracy. Everything is difficult. Everything is complicated. And my idea is simply give simplicity to Italy.

Italy is the worst country for bureaucracy around the world. And this is very important. If we have a system with a lot of politicians the consequence is 63 government change in 70 years.

Rethink every aspect of bureaucracy.

You know, you try to move the Brussels bureaucracy, and unless you have some capacity to really break it, you can't move it. It just sits there and stares at you.

The Washington bureaucracy is too arrogant and imperial.

Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.

Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.

We're into the era of desktop bureaucracy, where people sit at computers building websites and analyzing data rather than listening or reading.

Nobody wants to disappoint the boss and get fired. But if the boss hasn't said this is important, it's going to die a slow death in bureaucracy and that explains a lot of the problems.

Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

The American political system is a giant bureaucracy.

I think we're paralyzed by the virtues of a combination of liberalism and bureaucracy. And Trump doesn't know any of that. All he knows, and he's like every other citizen, fed up with it.

[Leftists] have all these embeds in their bureaucracy and in the judiciary. So even when they lose elections they have ample positions of power occupied by career invisibles.

Rather than Surrender to Bureaucracy, take it upon yourself to break it

The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.

Effectively, the EU is a very powerful bureaucracy, dominated now by the German elite, which is backed by the rest of the European Union members.

There's so much kind of bureaucracy involved with the whole concept of net neutrality and like technical stuff.

The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.

[I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method.

The bureaucracy has grown such powerful roots in Russia, and corruption is so widespread, that people from opposition have no interest in changing anything.

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.

To achieve peace, it is crucial to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy that prevents peace processes from advancing.

Tax credits instead of a huge bureaucracy. This is the question for me.

for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.

State first, subject second, statesman last.

In a democracy government is the God.

Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

Business is boss, politics is servant.

Let’s form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we’ll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.

We . . . go out into the Waste Land of Experts, each knowing so much about so little that he can neither be contradicted nor is worth contradicting.

The five stages of bureaucratic grieving are: denial, anger, committee meetings, scapegoating, and cover-up.

We fill too many gutters while we argue unimportant points and confuse issues.

Bureaucrats and Politicians are different people, work of Bureaucrats makes us hate Politicians.

Any sensible government must learn to unleash the energy of its people and get them to perform instead of trying to get a bureaucracy to perform.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

An "attack on SeaWorld" might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The government doesn't always seem to distinguish between the two.

Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at one port while customs officials tried to figure out how to classify it.

But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.

The difference between the modern laws and those of the past is that wisdom is no longer a respected requirement and it has become secondary in importance to bureaucratic procedure.

The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies.

pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize.

Nobody likes having a problem, but having a convoluted, bureaucratic one is even more galling.