Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy. — Arthur Capper Copy Share Image
No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
God, it stinks,” I said, hand over my nose as he pulled me into a long step. Al strode forward, head high.… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Organised religion is a contradiction in terms - it's the fallible meeting the infallible. Any earthly, bureaucratic representation of a higher power… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
The European Union, ok, right, it has a bureaucracy, right. It's sometimes difficult to deal with but so what? You hire a… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
“We . . . go out into the Waste Land of Experts, each knowing so much about so little that he can… — G.M. Young Copy Share Image
Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the… — Theresa May 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
The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all.… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
If the DHS insists, as bureaucracies are apt to do, that open-source must be certified via a sanctioned, formal process, it will… — Mark Hall Copy Share Image
“The only problem that ever really seems to bother empire builders is bureaucracy. Before a new colony on the frontier could be… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I think what's happening is companies are trying to maximize shareholder value and I think they realized that if they could hire… — Nick Corcodilos Copy Share Image
Let every nation, right now, do what is best for all citizens of the world: eliminate every form of intervention that would… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of… — John Reith, 1st Baron Reith Copy Share Image
In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
[Leftists] have all these embeds in their bureaucracy and in the judiciary. So even when they lose elections they have ample positions… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an… — Ouida Copy Share Image
I do not support Common Core because there is absolutely no evidence that a big, centralized bureaucracy makes anything better. In fact,… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
I am for joining a free trade zone. The European Union is not such zone, but a zone of raging bureaucracy which… — Janusz Korwin-Mikke Copy Share Image
Be prepared for the creation of an intrusive bureaucracy to police the ordinance by examining the books and payroll ledgers of businesses... — Randy Hamilton Copy Share Image
The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I have tried to be more flexible, but I always end up feeling more uncomfortable. Retaining a sense of control is really… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity,… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship. — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization [in education] is… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
We know that the two most important things in a child's education are a good teacher and an involved parent. You don't… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way… — Jennifer Pahlka Copy Share Image
If the bureaucracy is not checked, it will tend to build, in the name of peace, a defense against every conceivable contingency… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
An unrealized capital gains tax will empower the federal government to access the private transactions of Americans, needlessly expand bureaucracy in Washington,… — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
We need first of all the reform of our justice system. We need reform of the education system, because of quality of… — Iveta Radicova Copy Share Image
The ever-growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards the life of man from the cradle to the grave… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“The State is not the hope of the world; it is an institution grounded in the threat of violence, whether via capital… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image