Quotes About Bureaucracy

The way I see it is that love can put an end to this bureaucracy people go through in their relationships. But it can't blind you to the fact that maybe there are bombs, there are problems and the ozone layer is depleting.

If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

Non-fictionalised accounts of horrific accidents, bereavement, and the outrages of officialdom tend to move us deeply.

I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.

Eu esperava por grandes painéis de carvalho, um vidro na porta — com Chefe "escrito" —, para que os focas pudessem nos ver discutindo a liberdade de imprensa. O escritório de Curry é sem graça e institucional, como o resto do prédio. Você poderia debater jornalismo ou fazer um papanicolau. Ninguém ligaria.

We are in danger of government by professional office-holders Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody.

When we're worried about a bureaucracy and keeping the bureaucracy going, you're always going to make mistakes.

The clear, unmistakable sign of a bureaucrat is somebody who worries about whether he has a window.

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.

Publicly, we're saying we're better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse, since the high-level people are scared of being held responsible for 9/11.

If you come to Georgia, you can open up a company in a day. You yourself can come tomorrow and establish a company in a day, and you're not halted by paperwork.

One of the things that happens that's challenging within the democratic process is that people say, 'Look at this failure, so we should totally change this whole thing.' And then you add in tons of bureaucratic process and checks and balances, and all of a sudden, it doesn't work that well.

We have got a - we've got a good federal work force, but we have too many people, and we're paying them too much money.

The people in Washington spend too much time in Washington, so they think Washington-centric thoughts.

In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.

We call the rangers 'the tool.' They're just kind of a tool of the government machine. They don't use their own mind.

Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government, a bureaucratic elite which believes our Constitution is outmoded.

The Federal Department of Odds and Ends: sweepus underum carpetae.

Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.

In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.

A lot of [bureaucratic] rules were created a long time ago when there were different challenges, and they are now causing negative side effects.

Nothing can prepare you for the yawning chasm of time that passes in Canada before the healthcare system actually does any healthcare.