Bureaucracy Quotes

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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
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. — Honore de Balzac
Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need. — Christopher Bond
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
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
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
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
Communism is what happens when atheism meets bureaucracy. — Theodore Beale
The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency. — Eugene McCarthy
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
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
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
A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens. — John Hickenlooper
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
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
The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. — Karl Marx
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
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
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
I love a novel thatâ€™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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