Bureaucracy Quotes · Page 5

I talked about the consolidation of power in the hands of the corporate bureaucracy, as distinct from the stockholders. To this view,…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of…

— Arthur C. Brooks

“for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they…

— Henry David Thoreau

Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.

— Walter Walker

[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to…

— Laurence Tribe

One book that I heard was circulating the Green Zone was "Bureaucracy Does Its Thing" by Robert Komer , who worked for…

— George Packer

Things like science and technology still leave some gaps, so it's not as if everybody was sitting around doing nothing, but the…

— Peter Buffett

“But who would build the roads if there were no government? You mean to tell me that 300 million people in this…

— Larken Rose

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

— Laurence Gonzales

Over and over again we learn that Obama nor any of his people high up in whatever bureaucracy can accomplish any of…

— Rush Limbaugh

The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad…

— Jose Ferreira

“Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions.…

— Arthur C. Clarke

I'll have to look into [Washington] D.C. a bit more. I know it's given over to the administration and the bureaucracy connected…

— Dylan Moran

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

— Lester Thurow

Trapped in the bureaucracy nightmare, real families suffer when the big banks and their servicers force foreclosures. The emotional toll on children…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

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

— Harold Ford, Jr

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

— Ernest Hemingway

We need to get rid of all remnants of bureaucracy and bureaucratic thinking, and start thinking like entrepreneurs again.

— Larry Sanger

I sighed. I hated the maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with it is…

— Kim Harrison

“Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.”

— Niall Ferguson

Despite the fact that the country was electing Republicans, Obama wasn't being stopped, and it's because of the political system. The political…

— Rush Limbaugh

Governance in India comes in the iron-clad armour of bureaucracy. Anyone in uniform considers it his or her right that we regard…

— Amitava Kumar

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government…

— L. Neil Smith

By going from the bottom-up again, we see where successes work, and you can also see where the status quo can be…

— Jacqueline Novogratz