I use the term "punishment bureaucracy" instead of…

When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the…

— John T. Flynn

There's nothing wrong with the Democratic Party that talks more about - and more loudly about - jobs, and cutting red tape, and bureaucracy,…

— John Hickenlooper

Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no…

— Winston Churchill

I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It…

— Camille Paglia

I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the…

— Slavoj Žižek

If there's one thing you should know about me it's that I'm utterly unsuited for bureaucracy. I don't know my passwords to anything. I…

— Julio Torres

[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there a way…

— Gillian Tett

“Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding…

— Isabel Allende

“Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around…

— Philip K. Howard

Trump conducts meetings and actually tries to get something done rather than just have the meeting and rather than just announce a framework and…

— Rush Limbaugh

So many signatures for such a small heart.

— Mother Teresa

“Uniformity in the common law, consisting of broad principles like the "reasonable person" standard, generally permits adjustment for the circumstances. This type of uniform…

— Philip K. Howard

“It is horrible to think that the world could one day be filled with nothing but those little cogs, little men clinging to little…

— Max Weber

“Bureaucracy will be the deity of the twentieth century.”

— Péter Esterházy

the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left…

— Hannah Arendt