Paperwork is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of life where none exists. — Robert H. Meltzer Copy Share Image
We have to create that strength, and sometimes we have to reduce bureaucracy. It just gets in our way. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction. — Terry Winograd Copy Share Image
Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It's that government bureaucracies crush innovation. We are falling further and further behind in our government. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The best way to put the federal bureaucracy back on a leash is to make it obey the laws the people write. — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We have a system in the hands of bureaucracy. Everything is difficult. Everything is complicated. And my idea is simply give simplicity… — Matteo Renzi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Governments everywhere, including here in the Unites States, have created ever-expanding bureaucracies that regulate nearly every aspect of our lives. — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
[I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You see the kind of approach, because he [Doanld Trump] is a businessman. He's like, I'm going to pick up the phone,… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations,… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
[Mikhail Bakunin] expectations were generally confirmed, including his prediction that some would seek to gain state power on the backs of popular… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Congress is supposed to fund the IRS, and it has been steadily reducing the number of auditors and tax collectors the IRS… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“The gargantuan, ever-growing, ever-less-accountable, impossible-to-uproot federal bureaucracy is actually the sleeper issue of our time. It’s at the heart of the conservative… — Jim Geraghty Copy Share Image
No university ought to be merely a national institution…The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good thing in that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Trump conducts meetings and actually tries to get something done rather than just have the meeting and rather than just announce a… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Confidential matters are not dealt with over the telephone, you'd better come here in person. I cannot leave the house, Do you… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“Just three words? Nothing about his physical health? His equipment? His supplies?' 'You got me,' she said. 'He left a detailed status… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
“A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.” — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things. — John Bolton Copy Share Image
The bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop. — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose of government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.” — Raul Ramos y Sanchez Copy Share Image