There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the… — Elinor Ostrom Copy Share Image
I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The Greek people deserve an economy that is not burdened forever by a heavy bureaucracy and a bloated public sector. — Charles Dallara Copy Share Image
An institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel frustration at the bureaucracy for not moving fast enough to deliver in the way that I would prefer. But… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Combination does not produce though mergers and combinations are still the accepted panacea. In Big business there appears to be increasing aridity,… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
However many people complain about the "red tape," it would be sheer illusion to think ... continuous administrative work can be carried… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
There's a long history of presidents coming in, saying they're gonna to take on the bureaucracy. What they really mean is they're… — Brian Balogh Copy Share Image
You know, you try to move the Brussels bureaucracy, and unless you have some capacity to really break it, you can't move… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“The address of the Tip O'Neill building is 10 Causeway Street. It may be torn down soon, because it is one of… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“For all the scientific evidence we were amassing, many people, both in government and in the citizenry our elected officials are supposedly… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I think we have in Germany too many sickness funds. We started with more than 1,000 sickness funds. But the fewer sickness… — Karl Lauterbach Copy Share Image
As the Nazi regime developed over the years, the whole structure of decision-making was changed. At first there were laws. Then there… — Raul Hilberg Copy Share Image
The technical genius which could find answers ... was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found… — Henry H. Arnold Copy Share Image
The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“What is all this? Get him out of here, devil take me!” And that one, imagine, smiles and says: “Devil take you?… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Sears had layers and layers of people it didn't need. It was very bureaucratic. It was slow to think. And there was… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
We've seen a shift where people were often initially reluctant to call things terrorism until they knew for sure. And now they… — Daniel Byman Copy Share Image
In America, the political system just is paralyzed for whatever reason. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong, in that it's just become… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image