Authority Quote by Richard Holbrooke

Bureaucracies tend to perpetuate themselves, whether they are multinational corporations or large government institutions such as Medicare, often at the expense of those that…

— Dean Ornish

I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.

— Carly Fiorina

In the first place, bureaucracies never become efficient; they're never going to get rid of administrative costs; they're never going to reduce them. That's…

— Rush Limbaugh

Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.

— Joel Miller

One of the greatest struggles of bureaucracies is they get built and created, but they design themselves in such a way that they can…

— Josh Barnett

We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

— John Sununu

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed…

— Alan Keyes

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to…

— Brooks Atkinson

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

— Thomas Sowell

You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive tyrannical force,…

— Millicent Fenwick

Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and…

— James Q. Wilson

Bureaucrats want bigger bureaus. Special interests are interested in whatever's special to them. These two groups bring great pressure to bear upon politicians who…

— P. J. O'Rourke