Bureaucracy Quotes · Page 6

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

— David Halberstam

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

— Chris Terrio

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

— Brooks Atkinson

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

— Dale Dauten

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

— Anonymous

When you get big, there's a tendency to get caught up in process and bureaucracy.

— Aneel Bhusri

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

— Walter Bagehot

We need to tackle the bureaucracy that's holding our education system back.

— Mark Robinson

At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn't kill. He lets it live. Because you can't kill…

— Sylvester Stallone

Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.

— Donald Rumsfeld

I think we're paralyzed by the virtues of a combination of liberalism and bureaucracy. And Trump doesn't know any of that. All…

— Rush Limbaugh

Once we leave the E.U., we will be able to slash the £600 million of costs of Brussels bureaucracy that hold back…

— Priti Patel

Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil…

— Winston Churchill

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

I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but…

— Jim Ratcliffe

[I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method.

— Tony Benn

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be…

— Aldous Huxley

America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the…

— Anonymous

And if you like socialized medicine, you will love this government bureaucracy under [then-Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee] Al Gore that…

— J. D. Hayworth

We need to do a top/bottom review of the federal government and for every agency administration bureaucracy that is not called for…

— Josh Mandel

The tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been…

— Paul Craig Roberts

I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact…

— Slavoj Žižek

I love a novel that’s funny, and The Taxman Cometh is very funny, delightfully well-written, yet with a serious message about how…

— Marvin Kalb

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

— Carly Fiorina

My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.

— Harmony Korine

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

— Oscar Wilde

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

That massiveness of bureaucracy at the VA is chronic and has been chronic.

— Bill Pullman

We have to cut the red tape, eliminate barriers, and reduce bureaucracy - for all housing, for everyone.

— London Breed

Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.

— Aaron Broussard

When we're worried about a bureaucracy and keeping the bureaucracy going, you're always going to make mistakes.

— John Calipari

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

— Richard M. Nixon

The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.

— Lev Grossman

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

— John Sununu

In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.

— Chris Fussell

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

— P. J. O'Rourke

When people are dying, bureaucracy should be thrown out of the water.

— Ray Nagin

An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports.

— Arthur Helps

I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I…

— Francesca Annis

To achieve peace, it is crucial to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy that prevents peace processes from advancing.

— Widad Akrawi