Quotes About Bureaucracy

The problem with the NCAA - it's slow-moving.

The problem with Microsoft is that it's so committee-driven and slow.

And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.

I think that when a somebody dies, there ought to be a process where everything about them, like bills and taxes, stops. They don´t even slow down. As a matter of fact, they seem to come quicker and louder.

Altogether there are about 22 million government busybodies meddling in the lives of Americans.

I'm more depressed about the realities of the mature bureaucracy and more excited about the ideal that we're fighting for. And the juxtaposition has obvious consequences. Rolf Mowatt-Larrsen

The government of the world's most powerful nation is running furiously in place.

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size

Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets

The government

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.

Whenever somebody has an idea for a business and experiences quite a bit of success, you can naturally expect the government to step in and screw it up.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

I thought of all the hours that i has spent at passport and visa counters, and the stark terror that an immigration officer's frown could still send through me.

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

For example, until 1972 Seoul (not Pyongyang!) was constitutionally the capital of the DPRK. Concurrently, the ROK government still appoints governors to the provinces of North Korea. Incidentally, the joint offices of these five governors are located not far from the university where this book was being written—and these offices are bustling with bureaucratic activity every time I visit.

You know you're in a bureaucracy when a hundred people who think 'A' get together and compromise on 'B.