Quotes About Bureaucracy

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

It should not take award-winning investigators to find out how this government operates.

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

I just felt very isolated in France, a very bureaucratic place, no space for thinking in a different way, an artist's way.

It often takes time for the Israeli government to get things done.

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

The Japanese press likes me a lot, but the problem is the Japanese government. It's very bureaucratic.

A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation and risk taking in a bureaucracy. If the slightest mistake can end a career, then no one will ever take risks.

Whether he was conscious of it or not, Deng was restoring much of the institutional legacy of traditional Chinese government. Only this time, it was the Communist Party that played the role of the emperor with his eunuch cadres supervising a vast bureaucracy.

The most modern contemporary bureaucracies were those established by authoritarian states in their pursuit of national security.

A fair proportion of each teacher's day is frittered away on pointless paperwork and bureaucracy...In my long experience ,meetings rarely achieve anything useful;they consist of of hours of endless,tortuous waffle and no decisions about anything.

As in the past, political scientists and sociologists will continue to debate the existence of the power elite or the extent and influence of the military-industrial complex as the iron cage of bureaucracy slowly closes.

It is not necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paper work, and the other is nostalgia.

An income tax form is like a laundry list -- either way you lose your shirt.

Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

Durante los ocho años de presidencia de George W. Bush, y los primeros cuatro de Barack Obama, el país desembolsó un billón de dólares para crear la estructura de seguridad más mastodóntica, engorrosa, duplicada y tal vez ineficaz que el mundo había conocido jamás.

You have not done the proper paperwork in this kingdom to kill that child

The spirit of Caiaphas lives on in every century of religious bureaucrats who confidently condemn good people who have broken bad religious laws. Always for a good reason of course: for the good of the temple, for the good of the church. How many sincere people have been banished from the Christian community by religious power brokers as numb in spirit as Caiaphas!

It was wise to put bureaucrats in windowless offices.

When your money is taken by a thief, you get nothing in return. When your money is taken through taxes to support needless bureaucrats, precisely the same situation exists.

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.

My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, there was sometimes stifling bureaucracy, boredom, colleagues who never should have been there, and later, deeply disturbing stories of the CIA's involvement in torture. Still, I got to do work I thought was incredibly important and, many times, had fun doing it.

Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.

Trapped in the bureaucracy nightmare, real families suffer when the big banks and their servicers force foreclosures. The emotional toll on children packing up their rooms and on parents struggling to find a temporary roof is a deep one.