Quotes About Bureaucracy

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

This is government. There is no entertainment.

It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.

My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.

The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action.

The government shouldn't run anything, because it cannot run anything.

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.

Anything that the private sector can do, the government can do it worse.

The nearest thing to immortality in this world is a government bureau.

When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing.

Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.

It's that government bureaucracies crush innovation. We are falling further and further behind in our government.

Leaks are good. There is too much secrecy in our government. Sometimes the government knows about a problem and it takes a leak to embarrass the bureaucracy and get them to do something about it.

National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.

I can imagine [the government] trying to tell Steven Spielberg 'We need 50 different cuts of your movie for each state.' It will screw us up in a real way.