Bureaucracy Quotes
261 quotes by 216 authors
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Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and…
— Michele Bachmann
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
— Honore de Balzac
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Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.
— Christopher Bond
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The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
— Madeleine Albright
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The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right way. And we must truly…
— Herman Cain
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Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the…
— Chris Chocola
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
— Francesca Annis
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Communism is what happens when atheism meets bureaucracy.
— Theodore Beale
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The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
— Eugene McCarthy
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Combination does not produce though mergers and combinations are still the accepted panacea. In Big business there appears to be increasing aridity, bureaucracy, and stultifying…
— Reginald Fessenden
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Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and…
— Ariel Dorfman
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Citizens everywhere, and especially soldiers, should remember that entrenched bureaucracy, whatever the level, can be overcome. You've got to stick to it, be polite but…
— William G. Bainbridge
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A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
— John Hickenlooper
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We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and…
— Arthur C. Brooks
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We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.
— Tom Peters
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The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.
— Karl Marx
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Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by which special interests…
— Ralph Raico
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and…
— Charles Bowers
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The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I love a novel that’s funny, and The Taxman Cometh is very funny, delightfully well-written, yet with a serious message about how government bureaucracy affects…
— Marvin Kalb
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