Bureaucracy Quotes · Page 7

We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.

— Anonymous

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

— Terry Gross

We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.

— Barack Obama

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is the inefficiency

— Anonymous

“These meetings, they're like thieves—they follow you around, wait until you're not looking, and pounce.”

— Robert Jackson Bennett

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

— Ludwig von Mises

If there is a way to delay in important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it

— Anonymous

“Every country in the world had a bureaucracy, whose entire purpose was to delay important things from happening.”

— Tom Clancy

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having…

— Russell Means

It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his…

— Eduardo Galeano

Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by…

— Ralph Raico

Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and…

— Paul Goodman

In fact, the private sector is improving their algorithmic ability to search through big data month after month after month. And, of…

— Carly Fiorina

FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, .. Natural disaster preparedness and response programs have become…

— Alcee Hastings

“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.”

— Ryan Lilly

Italy is the worst country for bureaucracy around the world. And this is very important. If we have a system with a…

— Matteo Renzi

“The earliest use of writing was strictly commercial and economic, not political or bureaucratic. It was trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private…

— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and…

— Manuel De Landa

The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass…

— Alvin Toffler

We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of…

— Arthur C. Brooks

“private loans will utilize existing resources and capital far better than government loans. Government loans will waste far more capital and resources…

— Henry Hazlitt

“Collins and Morales represent a segment of society which, if attacked with the weapons society sanctions, one finds buffered by innumerable layers…

— Roger Zelazny

I look at some of the things that Donald Trump will do around cutting red tape, reducing bureaucracy, helping entrepreneurs, helping businesses…

— John Hickenlooper

America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the…

— Anonymous

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

— Anonymous

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape.

— Alexander Ostrovsky

In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.

— Charles E. McKenzie

Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

— James Surowiecki

“Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it’s an almost losing battle against it.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

The best way to avoid bureaucracy is to have small teams who are empowered to make decisions and get their work done.

— Aneel Bhusri

The tax money belongs to the taxpayers. It doesn't belong to the bureaucracy. And government is not a welfare system.

— Bruce Rauner

We have to make the bureaucracy accountable to the people. It is not something esoteric, it can be done.

— Arvind Kejriwal

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

— James Fallows

A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— William Blake

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

— Charles W. Pickering

And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

— Chris Terrio

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

— Anonymous

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

— Brooks Atkinson