Bureaucracy Quotes · Page 7

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

— Widad Akrawi

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.

— Mark Kennedy

Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.

— Evan Esar

Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.

— John Sculley

We will not let government bureaucracy stand in the way of helping small businesses.

— Chris Sununu

We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism.

— Sonny Bono

Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.

— Anonymous

A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.

— Colin Greenwood

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

— Tony Benn

For me, governing starts with people. It doesn't start with bureaucracy. It doesn't start with policy. It starts with people and what…

— Betsy Hodges

What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do…

— Erich Fromm

A bureaucracy is like a living creature, with instincts of self-preservation and an urge to control all things for its own protection.

— Gordon R Dickson

We have a system in the hands of bureaucracy. Everything is difficult. Everything is complicated. And my idea is simply give simplicity…

— Matteo Renzi

Nobody wants to disappoint the boss and get fired. But if the boss hasn't said this is important, it's going to die…

— Robert M. Edsel

The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist --…

— Janet Flanner

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

— Joel Miller

My biggest hope that we're going to make it here is that this thinking is being manifested & really employed by the…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

You don't often see the words "Discipline" and "Dreaming" in the same sentence. But I believe this duality is critically important to…

— Josh Linkner

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

— George Packer

Medicare is a monopoly: a central-planning bureaucracy grafted onto American health care. It exercises a stranglehold on the health care of all…

— Virginia Postrel

Despite repeated calls for reform from nations like the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan, the court has become an ineffective, unaccountable and…

— Robert C. O'Brien

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

One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for…

— Marshall McLuhan

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

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

— Robert Townsend

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

— John Hickenlooper

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

— Jerry Pournelle

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy

— Sean Parker

“It comforted the great to deal with it and they knew, a man who could reduce any color to grey.”

— John le Carré

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

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

— Ronald Reagan

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

— Christopher Dodd

Corpocracy is large-scale corporate America's tendency to be like the government bureaucracy.

— Richard Darman

The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.

— Philip Berrigan

When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!

— Jack Kerouac

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

— Edward T. Hall

We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy.

— Carl Icahn

NASA, like every government organization, has some bureaucracy, which can become slimmer.

— Sunita Williams

I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.

— Wangari Maathai

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create an agency the size of NASA…

— Ross Perot