Quotes About Bureaucracy

The truth is, sometimes the best way for the government to help those in need is to stop itself from 'helping' them at all.

I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

Wouldn't it be lovely if there were no such things as birth certificates? If I really thought I was 53, life would be much better. I'd love to blow up all the birth certificates.

Washington is broken.

I'm not a fan of the NCAA. I don't think they make decisions for the kids. They make decisions for bureaucracy and for their structure.

We have to make the bureaucracy accountable to the people. It is not something esoteric, it can be done.

I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.

I trust the individual over the bureaucracy.

Our own bureaucracy should not and cannot get in the way of our efforts to get people sheltered.

I would drastically revise much of the Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation, which I call the 'Bureaucrat Full Employment Act.'

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

Bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., shouldn't know how to better educate my kids than I do.

Bureaucrats serve their own interests first.

The government never does anything successfully.

One of the greatest struggles of bureaucracies is they get built and created, but they design themselves in such a way that they can never be at fault. They can never be wrong, they can never have made a mistake and they never want to relent.

In the political world, big established failing systems control the rules, suck in more and more resources rather than go bust, make it almost impossible for startups to contribute and so on.

Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government deliberations.

First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures.

But why, Mr. Stendahl, why all this? What obsessed you?" "Bureaucracy, Mr. Garrett. But I haven't time to explain. The government will discover soon enough." He nodded to the ape. "All right. Now." The ape killed Mr. Garrett.

Government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind.

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.

L'atmosfera di burocrazia ucciderebbe qualsiasi cosa respirasse aria di sforzo umano, estinguerebbe parimenti speranza e timore sotto la supremazia di carta e inchiostro.

Of course, government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind;