Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Fight hierarchy and bureaucracy as hard as you possibly can. Don't ever let it become the master; always remember it's the servant. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
Just as in policing there is an emphasis on civilians to help with paperwork, we must free up trained and experienced social… — Andy Sawford Copy Share Image
Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs.… — John Shadegg Copy Share Image
We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that… — Eric Cantor Copy Share Image
I think there's definitely billions and billions in waste, fraud and abuse. There's billions that can be generated in the economy by… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Revolutions as often take place because the old regime simply collapse out of economic inefficiency and bureaucratic rigidity rather than for the… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
[President Donald Trump] is doing exactly what he promised to do.When you come in as an outsider and you own no one… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
People know that billions of pounds are wasted. Billions of pounds never get near the families that need it. It is an… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
The way to an American economic comeback, the way to help those out of work today find a paycheck, is to unleash… — Rob Portman Copy Share Image
“To him, one of the most fascinating historical aspects of governments was their complete disregard for governing. Governments were single-minded and interested… — Hank Quense Copy Share Image
Sears had layers and layers of people it didn't need. It was very bureaucratic. It was slow to think. And there was… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
When [Jimmy] Carter did quote them, he quoted them in what I believe were misapplications, such as arguing for the creation of… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
India has a high level of corruption, a lethargic bureaucracy and is low on accountability. Investigations are long drawn and often aimless;… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
Bitcoin is not “unregulated”. It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted. — Andreas Antonopoulos Copy Share Image
“I use the term "punishment bureaucracy" instead of "criminal justice system" because it is a more accurate and less deceptive way to… — Alec Karakatsanis Copy Share Image
Our world today is in the grip of anti-capitalism. State bureaucracies ruling over anti-market policies have grown into ideological and political elites… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy. — Frederick Forsyth Copy Share Image
Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
An Italy that collects lower taxes, that has well-defined times for the court proceedings, and that has less bureaucracy is good news… — Matteo Salvini Copy Share Image
The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
“An "attack on SeaWorld" might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face.… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced… — John Redwood Copy Share Image
I'm addicted to picking my nose. In a world of red tape and bureaucracy, where it takes forever to buy a house… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
“The NSA?" "Yeah, they called and offered to help out. Same software they use for enhancing spy satellite imagery." Venkat shrugged. "It's… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit.… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel frustration at the bureaucracy for not moving fast enough to deliver in the way that I would prefer. But… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Many people are allergic to process and structure because it causes traumatic flashbacks of working at BigCo and suffering through bureaucracy for… — Christine Tsai Copy Share Image
Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
“What is all this? Get him out of here, devil take me!” And that one, imagine, smiles and says: “Devil take you?… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
Institutions which have too much security ... tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order… — Judith M Bardwick Copy Share Image
Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
![“[President Donald Trump] is doing exactly what he promised to do.When you come in as an outsider and you own no one anything and you're going to disrupt a bureaucracy that is so entrenched that the - you've got to just get it out by root and branch, the tentacles are so deep and so clinging to…” quote by Kellyanne Conway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc5/kellyanne-conway-1450_branches_president-donald-trump-is-doing-exactly_1910225.jpg)
![“When [Jimmy] Carter did quote them, he quoted them in what I believe were misapplications, such as arguing for the creation of a federal Department of Education. In one case, Carter quoted [Tomas] Jefferson's and [George] Washington's appreciation of education and then, in a leap, implied that…” quote by Paul Kengor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e3/paul-kengor-14302_appreciation_when-jimmy-carter-did-quote-them-he-quot_2071113.jpg)
![“In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality.” quote by Leon Trotsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01b/leon-trotsky-2558_bureaucracy_in-stalin-each-soviet-bureaucrat-easily_198840.jpg)
