Quotes About Bureaucracy

Many people are allergic to process and structure because it causes traumatic flashbacks of working at BigCo and suffering through bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake.

When I travel around the country, I see great companies with new ideas and a can-do attitude. But too often they are in hand-to-hand and pen-to-paper combat with officialdom.

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.

You can't just, boopity-boop, saunter into the Treasury. You need an appointment.

If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.

The bureaucrats tremble because they don't perform. In the past nobody checked their work. Now that I do it they are scared.

There's no room for human rights in a government waiting room.

One reason that it's difficult to understand is that twentieth-century managers had learned to parrot phrases like "The customer is number one!" while continuing to run the organization as an internally focused, top-down bureaucracy interested in delivering value to shareholders.

Buried in this bureaucracy lay the units devoted to secret operations in support of the Taliban, Kashmiri guerrillas, and other violent Islamic radicals—Directorate S, as it was referred to by American intelligence officers and diplomats.

Maybe it's time to take a lot closer look at the bureaucratic decisions being made by some of our governmental agencies and to start reducing their powers back to where the citizens control instead of being controlled.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace.

I like organised things. I don't like the corruption and slowness of Greece.

We will not let government bureaucracy stand in the way of helping small businesses.

The school system has become a part of this huge government machine, governed by people who aren't close to the situation. That's why I'm a Republican. I believe in small government.

The government is just too big, and we have to make it smaller; people are getting lost.

The federal bureaucracy is committed to one thing: making sure they keep their own jobs, even though they don't do them. The larger the bureaucracy, the more corrupt and incompetent it becomes. The losers are those poor people who must turn to the federal government for what they need.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order.

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.

You were right, said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents.

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Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job . . . into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen.

Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.