There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a…

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

— Eduardo Galeano

It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.

— Robert Townsend

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

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Brooks Atkinson

“There is an Anglo-Saxon form of riddling that plays with the polarities of words like bright and dark, cold and warm, throwing them against…

— Gerald Hausman

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

— John Stuart Mill

Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes…

— Rosa Luxemburg

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

“You tell me that yes, I can do it. I know. And I may do it, if I so choose. You tell me that…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream with a…

— James Arthur

Don’t you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you’ll soon…

— Gail Tsukiyama

I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the…

— Allison Joseph

“He looks like a poem. One of those mournfully beautiful ones with short, unfamiliar words that sound ethereal when spoken and completely nonsensical when…

— Velvetoscar

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent…

— Sarah Kay

“I think he's wonderful and strange and kind of like a poem.”

— Whitley Strieber