If the bureaucracy is not checked, it will tend to build, in the name of peace, a defense against every conceivable contingency… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization [in education] is… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism - a socialism that, owing… — Salvador Allende Copy Share Image
“The State is not the hope of the world; it is an institution grounded in the threat of violence, whether via capital… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
Americans deserve to have their religious beliefs and practices protected. Religious freedom is too important to be trampled by insensitive bureaucracy or… — Charles T. Canady Copy Share Image
The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed… — Steig Larsson Copy Share Image
The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut... I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
“A healthy agency does not require relevance to the national agenda so much as the APPEARANCE of relevance to the national agenda,"… — Jim Geraghty Copy Share Image
Jindal's record in Louisiana is controversial, in part because, in a state which has historically favored patronage culture and a bureaucracy that… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
For an American, as mad you may be about whatever the EPA or the IRS does, just imagine if you only had… — Kevin Hassett Copy Share Image
The ever-growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards the life of man from the cradle to the grave… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We need first of all the reform of our justice system. We need reform of the education system, because of quality of… — Iveta Radicova Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal is not simply a superhighway, but an integrated North American Union--complete with a currency, a cross-national bureaucracy, and virtually… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
If conservatives come to control the White House and both Houses of Congress, there will be very little change in Hollywood, the… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
Unquestionably, however, something else is at work, something that cuts deeper into the American psyche. We have a profound hatred of the… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The way to an American economic comeback, the way to help those out of work today find a paycheck, is to unleash… — Rob Portman Copy Share Image
People know that billions of pounds are wasted. Billions of pounds never get near the families that need it. It is an… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
[President Donald Trump] is doing exactly what he promised to do.When you come in as an outsider and you own no one… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Revolutions as often take place because the old regime simply collapse out of economic inefficiency and bureaucratic rigidity rather than for the… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Defense leaders should be searching for ways to reform out-of-date procurement processes, to collapse layers of Pentagon bureaucracy, and to restrain the… — Pete Hegseth Copy Share Image
We know better than to think that Republicans can win only on the failures of Democrats. It still comes down to a… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
[in 1998] I know my political ideas affect what I write but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
Things like science and technology still leave some gaps, so it's not as if everybody was sitting around doing nothing, but the… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
“All such questions as, for instance,of the cause of failure of crops, of the adherence of certain tribes to their ancient belief,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“To him, one of the most fascinating historical aspects of governments was their complete disregard for governing. Governments were single-minded and interested… — Hank Quense Copy Share Image
Sears had layers and layers of people it didn't need. It was very bureaucratic. It was slow to think. And there was… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When [Jimmy] Carter did quote them, he quoted them in what I believe were misapplications, such as arguing for the creation of… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that the country was electing Republicans, Obama wasn't being stopped, and it's because of the political system. The political… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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