“Nobody likes having a problem, but having a convoluted, bureaucratic one is even more galling.” — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential. — George Soros Copy Share Image
[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
Sometimes being an artist is a real drag. It can be incredibly bureaucratic. — Micah Lexier Copy Share Image
In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I think institutions that are bureaucratic often try to squeeze from the top down, and they don't have good results on the… — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
“And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
The Defense Department is prone to all of the 'traditional bureaucratic rules,' which is the same thing you'll find in most traditional… — Chris Fussell Copy Share Image
OFSTED has made large cuts in the paperwork which schools are asked to provide and further steps to reduce the bureaucratic burden… — Estelle Morris Copy Share Image
Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000. — Foster Friess Copy Share Image
I'm in a profession with a dismal success rate, in an academic field with a dismal hiring rate. And I don't write,… — Davis Schneiderman Copy Share Image
We need to call what is happening out of Washington, D.C., what it is: Bureaucratic terrorism: If you want a list of… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well.… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
As you move up a traditional, sort of bureaucratic structure, there's a certain point at which you realize, 'Well, I'm not really… — Chris Fussell Copy Share Image
I'm not proud of this at all, but I'm someone who has relied on business managers and accountants and career managers to… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles,… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“There have been several attempts at setting up electronic mail systems within the federal post office administration, but all have failed, not… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
“First, since so much time is spent by people in bureaus working with paper, they may come to set too much store… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is horrible to think that the world could one day be filled with nothing but those little cogs, little men clinging… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Bureaucratic advancement means fewer peers, more span of control, generally an increasing information-pump function, and increased distance from the actual implementation of… — Chris Fussell Copy Share Image
Bureaucratic systems are not set up to be what we refer to as human service organizations. They were established to collect revenue… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only… — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
“Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and… — Ralph Hall Copy Share Image
Last month, the House of Representatives passed the Veterans Opportunity to Work Act, which would provide training and assistance to unemployed veterans,… — Joe Heck Copy Share Image
Agribusiness - with its wicked powerful lobby and its infiltration of top bureaucratic posts - essentially runs roughshod over the government agencies… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
I've never been impressed with bureaucratic tradition. I don't like it when the parties come to me and say, 'This is the… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
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