Quotes About Bureaucracy

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

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the more bureaucrats there are, the more laws are needed to keep them fed. I

which is run by unelected officials, would become the most powerful governmental authority.

The English people must miss a thousand minutiae that continental bureaucracies know even too well; but if they see a cardinal truth which those bureaucracies miss, that cardinal truth may greatly help the world.

Not only does a bureaucracy thus tend to under-government, in point of quality; it tends to over-government, in point of quantity.

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality.

It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.

Human beings today ... are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate.

The heavy curtain of Bureaucracy was drawn between the right thing to be done and the right man to do it.

It must always be an amazement how 18th century letter writers - even, and especially, officials - had the time and capacity to produce their sculpted sentences and perfection of grammar and mots justes , while 20th century successors can only envy the past and leave their readers painfully to pick their way through thickets of academic and the mud of bureaucratic jargon.

It is a feature of government that the more important the problem, the further it tends to be removed from handling by anyone well acquainted with the subject.

The fact-finding mission was now the traditional Washington substitute for policy.

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

It wasn't easy to adopt an American child. Actually it's quite simple, but finding out how to do it was the hard part.

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

I understand that bureaucracy, hierarchy and managing politics is not easy.

I love the U.S. military. I want them to be the most effective and the most cost-effective and I think there is so much spending and so much bloat and so much bureaucracy that it actually hinders them from having a lot of the mission accomplishments that they should.

It was curious how that beetlelike type proliferated in the Ministries: little dumpy men, growing stout very early in life, with short legs, swift scuttling movements, and fat inscrutable faces with very small eyes. It was the type that seemed to flourish best under the dominion of the Party.

If you look close enough and are in a bad mood, public service seems to be composed of paperwork and personal feuds.

I've always been maternal and Russia was a country where it's possible to adopt infants - my English social worker told me not even to waste my time trying here.

I believe in lower taxes. I believe in more efficient government. I believe in reducing bureaucracy. I believe that we shouldn't have lobbyists who can go in or former government workers who can come back and lobby.

Incredibly, whenever I have proposed the theory that half of government workers could be cut, current and former federal employees I know have all agreed.

When millions of dollars and thousands of humanitarian workers poured into Indonesia, we quickly faced the challenge of coordinating our own bureaucracy with the multitudes of approaches and priorities the donor community wanted to pursue.