Bureaucracy Quotes
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Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
Albert Einstein
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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
Oscar Wilde
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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
P. J. O'Rourke
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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
Jack Welch
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Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
Dale Dauten
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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.
Francesca Annis
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Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.
Theresa May
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corruption and error hardwired at inception.
Jasper Fforde
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My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.
Harmony Korine
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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.
Lee Iacocca
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The 'Occupy' movement has no real solutions, except more government, more spending, more regulation, more bureaucracy, more unsustainable lethargic pseudo-university with no return on investment, more more more of what got us into this hole.
Mark Steyn
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No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy.
Enda Kenny
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Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.
Martha Gellhorn
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Honore de Balzac
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Jihadis have a better bureaucracy than India.
Adrian Levy
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The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them. And one can debate long and profitably on the rule of Nobody, which is what the political form known as bureau-cracy truly is….we have become very much accustomed by modern psychology and sociology, not to speak of modern bureaucracy, to explaining away the responsibility of the doer for his deed in terms of this or that kind of determinism.
Hannah Arendt
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
William S. Burroughs
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Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.
James Cook
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When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.
Michael Gove
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Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.
James Woolsey
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We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism.
Sonny Bono Sonny & Cher
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If the DHS insists, as bureaucracies are apt to do, that open-source must be certified via a sanctioned, formal process, it will interfere with the informal process of open-source itself. It seems to me the DHS is trying to turn an open-source development project into a Microsoft (or IBM or Oracle) software development project. And we know what that means: more, not fewer, errors -- security and otherwise.
Mark Hall Casting Crowns
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Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.
Hannah Arendt
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Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and to untangle a complicated regulatory environment.
Benigno Aquino III