Bureaucratic Quote by Bill Pullman

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

— Walter Bagehot

Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save us from…

— David Brooks

We must limit the perception that some institutions are either too big or too interconnected to fail.

— Henry Paulson

As a bureaucracy becomes more established, it develops its own career structure. It is less dependent, and should be less dependent, on individual personalities.…

— John Scarlett

The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail…

— Karl Marx

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

— Evan Esar

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like…

— Jennifer Pahlka

I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse…

— Jonathan Raymond

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

— Chuck Hagel

People make institutions, not vice versa.

— Shere Hite

Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.

— Neil Steinberg

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

— Cal Thomas