Bureaucracy Quotes · Page 8

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

— Indira Gandhi

Bureaucrats live on the fat of the land, while the rest of us stay skinny laboring to pay their salaries.

— Charles E. McKenzie

Tax credits instead of a huge bureaucracy. This is the question for me.

— William Kristol

Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.

— Noam Chomsky

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

— John Sculley

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

— Evan Esar

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

— Anonymous

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

— Sonny Bono

In a large bureaucracy, it is vital to keep eyes on the grassroots as they almost always will give you warning of…

— Dominic Cummings

The Chipko activists have always been close to my parents, since my father was among the few forestry officials who supported them…

— Vandana Shiva

From aloof academics to career government cronies, President Barack Obama filled his Cabinet with individuals whose greatest achievements were dreaming up unworkable…

— Kayleigh McEnany

The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general…

— Max Weber

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can…

— Mark Steyn

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they…

— Darrell Issa

dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work…

— Jasmine Cresswell

“The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is…

— Hannah Arendt

An institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded…

— Peter Drucker

It's like a laboratory, a micro-society of real life, so it didn't look odd to talk about bureaucracy. In the school, in…

— Philippe Falardeau

When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow…

— John Mica

Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and…

— Richard V. Allen

Liberalism should be found not striving to spread bureaucracy but striving to set bounds to it. True liberalism seeks all legitimate freedom…

— Herbert Hoover

The income tax has spawned an intrusive bureaucracy, creating so much complexity and red tape that millions of ordinary citizens have to…

— Thomas Sowell

The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved.…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Chris Sununu

I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I…

— Francesca Annis

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

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

— Eugene McCarthy

An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports.

— Arthur Helps

Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.

— Jeff Bezos

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

— P. J. O'Rourke

In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.

— Chris Fussell

The LAPD, like most police departments, is a male-dominated bureaucracy. A woman faces a lot of pushback.

— Michael Connelly

When people are dying, bureaucracy should be thrown out of the water.

— Ray Nagin

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

— Christopher Dodd

“Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck.”

— Donald Horne

“I have always believed that a properly guided bureaucracy is deadlier than any bomb.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

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