Quotes About Bureaucracy

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.

Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

Washington is a place where good ideas go to die.

The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news.

The government does a lot of stuff that it shouldn't do - the Department of Education, for instance.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

In government, the scum rises to the top.

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.

Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.