Bureaucracy Quotes · Page 10

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

— John Calipari

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

— Aaron Broussard

The United Nations must focus on delivery rather than process and on people rather than bureaucracy.

— Antonio Guterres

Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.

— James Fallows

We have to make the bureaucracy accountable to the people. It is not something esoteric, it can be done.

— Arvind Kejriwal

A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.

— Laurence J. Peter

Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

— James Surowiecki

“Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it’s an almost losing battle against it.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

I don't want a lot of bureaucracy... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient,…

— Charlie Crist

They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid…

— Lee Iacocca

FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, .. Natural disaster preparedness and response programs have become…

— Alcee Hastings

“Let’s form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we’ll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.”

— Ryan Lilly

Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by…

— Ralph Raico

Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and…

— Paul Goodman

In fact, the private sector is improving their algorithmic ability to search through big data month after month after month. And, of…

— Carly Fiorina

Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style,…

— Daniel Tammet

The goal that the Obama team has is to fundamentally replace the historic America of self reliance, independence, the work ethic, the…

— Newt Gingrich

For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much…

— George McGovern

There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any…

— Peter Drucker

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The task of tracking deaths for the federal bureaucracy is an enormous one; about 2.5 million Americans die each year. Federal officials…

— David Fahrenthold

Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax…

— Ariel Dorfman

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of…

— Bruce Jackson

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

The best way to avoid bureaucracy is to have small teams who are empowered to make decisions and get their work done.

— Aneel Bhusri

The tax money belongs to the taxpayers. It doesn't belong to the bureaucracy. And government is not a welfare system.

— Bruce Rauner

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

— Charles W. Pickering

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

— William Blake

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

— Aneel Bhusri

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— David Halberstam

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

— Hannah Arendt

Publicly, we're saying we're better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse, since the high-level people…

— David Hunt

“She knew the power of bureaucracy well enough to be aware she had to sit and be admonished until this stranger felt…

— Thomm Quackenbush

I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.

— Carly Fiorina

Effectively, the EU is a very powerful bureaucracy, dominated now by the German elite, which is backed by the rest of the…

— Tariq Ali

UN is made even more complex by the constant interplay of politics and bureaucracy and can certainly be bewildering for a novice.

— Kofi Annan