In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
An ethical man survives in a bureaucratic post only if he puts his ethics in second place. — Gordon R Dickson Copy Share Image
“Nobody likes having a problem, but having a convoluted, bureaucratic one is even more galling.” — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I don't really understand how to do bureaucratic things - school-system things. — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential. — George Soros Copy Share Image
The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations. — Rick Renzi 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 rest of us learned the simple lesson - invaluable in a bureaucratic society - that there is no moral or practical… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“After a couple of years of death by bureaucratic snu-snu (too many committee meetings, too many tedious IT admin jobs)” — Charles Stross 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
A lot of [bureaucratic] rules were created a long time ago when there were different challenges, and they are now causing negative… — Jennifer Pahlka Copy Share Image
Korea can't become a 'first-class' nation unless regulation and 'a sense of power' disappear. The nation's politics is the fourth-class, bureaucratic are… — Lee Kun-hee Copy Share Image
For many of the brave men and women who have fought on the front lines, returning home means trying to navigate a… — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
There is not much of a bureaucratic leap, if history is any guide, between a seemingly benign call for 'continuous situational awareness'… — Michael Hastings 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
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
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
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
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
Over a wide field of our economy it is still the better course to rely on the nineteenth century's "hidden hand" than… — John James Cowperthwaite 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
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
“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
“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
“In his memoir White House Years, he discusses a classic bureaucratic trick that was played on President Richard Nixon, who was considering… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
Companies are actually much better than governments and other bureaucracies at organizing in a holistically efficient way the extremely complex path from… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization,… — Jerry Pournelle 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
“I learned that the world of men as it exists today is a bureaucracy. This is an obvious truth, of course, though… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all.… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The Japanese press likes me a lot, but the problem is the Japanese government. It's very bureaucratic. — Shuji Nakamura Copy Share Image
I know as well as anyone the bureaucratic healthcare maze that awaits injured veterans when they get home. — Brian Mast Copy Share Image
Sometimes being an artist is a real drag. It can be incredibly bureaucratic. — Micah Lexier Copy Share Image
Bureaucratic, out-of-touch regulations make it harder for taxpayers to afford appliances. — Jon Husted Copy Share Image