Bureaucracy Quotes

Rethink every aspect of bureaucracy.

— Newt Gingrich

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

— Robert Baer

We need to redirect dollars from bureaucracy.

— Mark Robinson

Communism is what happens when atheism meets bureaucracy.

— Theodore Beale

I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.

— Anonymous

“There is no crueler hells then committee work…”

— Robert Jackson Bennett

We will not let bureaucracy stand in the way of governing.

— Chris Sununu

Remove the document—and you remove the man.

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“Act on people's request before request turn into intimidation.”

— Amit Kalantri

One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.

— Gerald R. Ford

The Golden Rule of Bureaucracy: Whoever has the gold makes the rules. . .

— Rick Sutter

We need a different kind of leadership in the White House that understands how to get bureaucracies competent again.

— Carly Fiorina

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

— Rush Limbaugh

“This ensures that when I’m bogged down with day-to-day bureaucracy and details, I don’t lose sight of what I really want.”

— Sophia Amoruso

A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.

— Evan Esar

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

— James Cook

America isn't Wollman Rink, but I think almost everybody watching, and certainly the people who voted for him, have had frustrating experiences…

— Paul Solman

When I set out to make my movie 'Problemista,' among the biggest things I wanted to explore was the relentless maze of…

— Julio Torres

When you make a movie, it's just a huge bureaucracy because movies cost so much money. Millions of people get involved, and…

— Madonna Ciccone

I think it is a very important point for India to create a bureaucracy that lives on the ground and gets its…

— Abhijit Banerjee

Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style,…

— Daniel Tammet

Publicly, we're saying we're better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse, since the high-level people…

— David Hunt

“She knew the power of bureaucracy well enough to be aware she had to sit and be admonished until this stranger felt…

— Thomm Quackenbush

Effectively, the EU is a very powerful bureaucracy, dominated now by the German elite, which is backed by the rest of the…

— Tariq Ali

Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking…

— Aaron Broussard

After that, we had a short conversation about how your body can sometimes seem totally separate. She said her body can feel…

— Joe Dunthorne

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this…

— Guy Debord

Despite the fact that a predicted 350,000 persons in the US will die of cancer this year, the cancer bureaucracy keeps a…

— Phil Crane

I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of…

— John F. Kennedy

The goal that the Obama team has is to fundamentally replace the historic America of self reliance, independence, the work ethic, the…

— Newt Gingrich

For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much…

— George McGovern

There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any…

— Peter Drucker

The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand…

— Leon Trotsky

Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied…

— Albert Einstein

It's my greatest success. Women did not vote in Italy until 1946. A good friend and I put together a group of…

— Giovanna Cau

I don't know if Trump was readily prepared for having an entire embedded bureaucracy trying to undermine him. But he's gonna be…

— Rush Limbaugh

The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the…

— Ted Nordhaus

The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative…

— Hannah Arendt

Delhi is a very maligned city, and deservedly so. Yet there's something about it. It's a secret city, it doesn't hang out…

— Arundhati Roy

“Wananchi wanapokosa huduma za muhimu za kijamii (kama vile afya, elimu, chakula, malazi, na ulinzi) ilhali wanalipa kodi, na wameajiri serikali kuwaendeshea…

— Enock Maregesi