Administrative Quote by Max Weber

We too often hear about red tape but what they mean is the vital rights of workers.

— Frances O'Grady

The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still…

— Alain de Botton

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

— James Cook

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

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like…

— Jennifer Pahlka

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

— Albert Einstein

I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.

— Wangari Maathai

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

— Laurence J. Peter

Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.

— Evan Esar

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

Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.

— Jeff Bezos

Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.

— Bobby Jindal