Bureaucracy Quotes · Page 9

Corpocracy is large-scale corporate America's tendency to be like the government bureaucracy.

— Richard Darman

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

“It comforted the great to deal with it and they knew, a man who could reduce any color to grey.”

— John le Carré

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy

— Sean Parker

You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

— Ronald Reagan

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

— Jerry Pournelle

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

— John Hickenlooper

It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially…

— Robert Townsend

administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!

— Mary Parker Follett

In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.

— Ilana Mercer

Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the…

— Benigno Aquino III

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having…

— Russell Means

It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his…

— Eduardo Galeano

We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay…

— Jennifer Pahlka

If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not…

— Frank Chodorov

“Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a…

— Isabel Allende

Despite the fact that a predicted 350,000 persons in the US will die of cancer this year, the cancer bureaucracy keeps a…

— Phil Crane

I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of…

— John F. Kennedy

Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking…

— Aaron Broussard

After that, we had a short conversation about how your body can sometimes seem totally separate. She said her body can feel…

— Joe Dunthorne

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this…

— Guy Debord

On both sides of the Atlantic, our citizens are confronted by yet another danger - one firmly within our control. This danger…

— Donald Trump

I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem…

— Bruce Sterling

Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in…

— Rosa Luxemburg

A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.

— Colin Greenwood

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

— Mitt Romney

Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.

— Bernard Crick

That massiveness of bureaucracy at the VA is chronic and has been chronic.

— Bill Pullman

We have to cut the red tape, eliminate barriers, and reduce bureaucracy - for all housing, for everyone.

— London Breed

“Kati ya nchi yako na serikali yako ni kitu gani unakipenda zaidi? Ipende zaidi nchi yako, kuliko serikali yako!”

— Enock Maregesi

My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.

— Harmony Korine

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

— Oscar Wilde

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

— Walter Bagehot

Stand-up is no bureaucracy. No one can tell me what to do or not to do.

— Ali Wong

We need to tackle the bureaucracy that's holding our education system back.

— Mark Robinson

We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

— John Sununu

The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.

— Lev Grossman

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

— Richard M. Nixon