Best Bureaucracy Quotes
261 Bureaucracy quotes by 212 unique authors
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For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from…
— George McGovern
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Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.
— Frank Herbert
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Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.
— Frank Herbert
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Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from the tendency on…
— George Allen
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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
— Akio Morita
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Jihadis have a better bureaucracy than India.
— Unknown Author
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Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced…
— Richard Holbrooke
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We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we are…
— Ronald Reagan
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But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never…
— Manuel De Landa
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In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.
— Andrew Lansley
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The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
— Brooks Atkinson
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We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy.
— Carl Icahn
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Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to…
— Alan Keyes
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Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
— Dale Dauten
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The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly more over here,…
— Peter Drucker
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The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It is…
— Guy Debord
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The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires…
— Atul Gawande
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I don't want a lot of bureaucracy... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious.
— Charlie Crist
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I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't…
— Gary Bauer
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Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result,…
— John Shadegg
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It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with…
— H. L. Mencken
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It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to be a hot-headed…
— Bonnie Jo Campbell
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We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government skills,…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back in…
— Lee Iacocca
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