"A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files……" — Laurence J. Peter

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• Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which… — 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… — Madeleine Albright
• The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right… — Herman Cain
• Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government… — Chris Chocola
• I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy… — 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… — Reginald Fessenden
• Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths,… — Ariel Dorfman
• Citizens everywhere, and especially soldiers, should remember that entrenched bureaucracy, whatever the level, can be overcome. You've got to stick… — William G. Bainbridge

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