The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart…

“You are not smart enough until you are smart enough to act dumb.”

— Chathura Sandeepa

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

— Joel Miller

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

— Edward T. Hall

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

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