Quotes About Bureaucracy

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The way you can tell there's democracy going on is that nothing gets done.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

Life's been nothing but paperwork.

Liberalism is like this: Purporting to offer a middle ground between radical individualism and collectivism, what it really gives us is a diabolical synthesis of the two, a bureaucratically managed libertinism.

simplify rules, regulations, and laws. Get government out of the business of micromanaging.

You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.

The selected and appointed figure falls under the Bumbledom of bureaucracy, not democracy. Conversely, a leader becomes a leader through the election and elected members of the public; it determines and forms democracy; indeed, it secures the stability and prosperity of the state.

Ah, compañeros, otra cosa quiero decirles: aquí uno se desespera de tanto papeleo, de tanto oficio, de tanto que se tienen que levantar actas burocráticas. Papel y papel. Mire ahora: ¡ya todos los papeles volaron por los aires! El terremoto todo lo alevantó. (Alonso Mixteco)

Officialdom needs to put you in a categorizing box, and if it cannot then it is free to make its own verdict upon your status

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

One major reason why radical economic reform was almost impossibly difficult to introduce in the Soviet Union was the strength of vested interests – in the first place, the bureaucracies of the economic ministries and the regional party organizations.

We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.

In government, things do not move too quick. That is why I am trying to introduce a new culture: so that things move more quickly.

After the reunification, there was a certain sense of foreignness because daily life in the former East German states was completely turned inside out - everything from the shops to the bureaucracy to the working world.

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy.

For small community banks and credit unions, like those in Central and Northern Wisconsin, the hundreds of new rules will require an estimated 2,260,631 labor hours just for compliance. Those are hours that your local bank or credit union will spend dealing with some Washington bureaucrat instead of focusing on the needs of customers like you.

The supporters now, the bureaucrats of science, do not wish to take any risks. So in order to get it supported, they want to know from the start that it will work.

I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.

The problem in D.C. is that everything is on paper, and it's theoretical.

In theory, it is illegal to make the basement into a bureaucratic purgatory. In 1994, for instance, Congress prohibited agencies from making significant changes in a whistleblower's 'working conditions' as punishment for speaking out.

You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.