Quotes About Bureaucracy

Los Angeles County government is a "Soviet-style system," with too many people only sort of in charge and no person sufficiently at the helm to take responsibility.

If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

Governments everywhere, including here in the Unites States, have created ever-expanding bureaucracies that regulate nearly every aspect of our lives.

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

All this health and safety talk is just killing me.

Only in America does 'health' 'care' 'reform' begin with the hiring of 16,500 new IRS agents tasked with determining whether your insurance policy merits a fine.

If you don't like going to the DMV, imagine if the only place you could go to resolve a health care problem is some government agency.

Do you know who will be in charge of health care? The IRS. You thought getting audited was bad? Wait until your next prostate exam.

The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink.

Why do they call it the Department of Interior when they are in charge of everything outdoors?

The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.

Let's form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we'll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

The rules often get in the way of progress." "The CIA had rules," Cassidy said. I grinned. "But like me, they preferred results.

Arrow doesn't allow that kind of "home office knows best" bureaucracy that kills momentum. "The people that run a business really know that business. We execute better because we push activities and decisions down to them," Long explains. "I believe our success is because the people we acquired in the deal all feel they are a part of it.

When you hire someone with a strong work ethic, who shares your values and fits your culture, you don't need a lot of rules or bureaucracy," he says. "All the rules you find inside most companies are there for the two percent of all people who don't do the right thing, and in the process of having rules for them they adversely affect the other ninety-eight percent of all people who don't need rules. It's a lot easier to not hire those two percent.

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

Washington is not good at getting things done.

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.