Bureaucracy Quote by F. Sionil José

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

— Akio Morita

The Japanese press likes me a lot, but the problem is the Japanese government. It's very bureaucratic.

— Shuji Nakamura

We can't attribute a long history of democratic traditions to Japan, either, but today Japan boasts a fully-fledged democracy in which governments change according…

— Garry Kasparov

“To sum up what is most crucial in Japanese political culture: the Japanese have never been encouraged to think that the force of an…

— Karel Van Wolferen

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

The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to…

— Yoshihiko Noda

Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life…

— Herbert Hoover

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free…

— Walter Bagehot

“. . . Japan has a fundamental problem with information itself: it’s often lacking, and when it does exist, is fuzzy at its best,…

— Alex Kerr

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will…

— Steve Jobs

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are…

— Oscar Wilde