By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no…

We need to ensure that the government agencies that are supposed to be regulating the financial system are actually doing their jobs. We must…

— Carly Fiorina

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to…

— Brooks Atkinson

Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.

— Joel Miller

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are…

— Richard Holbrooke

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

— Jerry Pournelle

“Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands…

— Frank Herbert

The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be…

— Harold Ford, Jr

Change requires individuals who recognize that new things can be done and who take the initiative to get them done ... The existing bureaucracies,…

— Lester Thurow

Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.

— Laurence Gonzales

We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

— John Sununu

“One of the key characteristics of an elite corps is its susceptibility to those more powerful than itself. Elite power is naturally attracted to…

— Frank Herbert

It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly…

— Matt Taibbi

Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions,…

— Ariel Dorfman

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

— Chris Terrio

“It is important to remember that bureaucratic politics and rivalry are not just matters of competing for primacy in foreign policy - although they…

— Howard J. Wiarda