Quotes About Bureaucracy

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

The bigger the government, the greater the corruption

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.

Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.

Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our constituents.

A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!

Governments institutionalize something for nothing.

Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive.

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions

I don't want a lot of bureaucracy... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious.

Government is an unnecessary evil.

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

Whatever the needs of the public are, the government responds to those needs by getting larger.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.