Best Bureaucracy Wisdom
261 Bureaucracy quotes by 212 unique authors
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The way to an American economic comeback, the way to help those out of work today find a paycheck, is to unleash the forces of…
— Rob Portman
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More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
— Dennis Prager
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The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous…
— Dennis Prager
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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life…
— Ronald Reagan
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If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
— Hyman Rickover
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The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.
— Mitt Romney
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Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually…
— Donald Rumsfeld
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Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay…
— Thomas Sowell
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You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
— Thomas Sowell
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Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power…
— Thomas Sowell
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We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.
— John Sununu
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Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.
— James Surowiecki
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
— Alvin Toffler
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A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
— Harry S. Truman
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Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible…
— Donald Trump
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
— Gore Vidal
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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
— Jack Welch
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America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a…
— Thomas Friedman
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Remove the document—and you remove the man.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
— Michel Foucault
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Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy…
— Frank Herbert
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Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids…
— Paul Goodman
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
— Jack Kerouac
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