Quotes About Bureaucracy

I'm one of those guys who believes in next to zero government. They just screw everything up.

The Draft Model Police Act of 2006, as part of police reforms, provided for Special Security Zones to be created in the red corridor, which is a common development area. That means bringing together diverse political components but working through a coordinated bureaucracy.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

The entire civil service is like a fortress, made of papers, forms and red tape.

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world's greatest care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor.

I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more productive, and trying to keep the bureaucracy from getting in their way.

The one period of glory in NASA was the first nine years when they weren't a bureaucracy yet... and they haven't gotten back to that excitement, that adventurism, and won't. So, I would take most of the NASA budget, and I would turn it into prizes for private sector.

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

It turns out that in the federal government, there are a lot of innovators.

Bureaucrats lodged deep in agencies slow the impact of Trump's demands. Low-level staffers leak private meetings. The Department of Justice has gone rogue. The Swamp, it turns out, fights back.

The only way that we can disincentivize Central American immigrants from illegally entering our country is if we change our policies, tweak our laws, cut the bureaucratic red tape and immediately send them back to their countries of origin. Until then, this self-imposed crisis will continue to worsen.

Though I am not a chief of state, I must work twice as hard as one because I have to both administer a bureaucracy and run a revolution.

Nobody wants to disappoint the boss and get fired. But if the boss hasn't said this is important, it's going to die a slow death in bureaucracy and that explains a lot of the problems.

I have more government than I want, more government than I need, more government than I can afford.

I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.

Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.

Someone had to make sure that farmers, who grew more grain than their families needed, would sell food to the nonfarmers (the basketmakers, leatherworkers, and carpenters) who grew no grain themselves. Only in an inhospitable and wild place is this sort of bureaucracy—the true earmark of civilization—needed. In genuinely fertile places, overflowing with water and food and game and minerals and timber, people generally don't bother.3

Biurokracja niemiecka mówiÅ'a o "od?ydzeniu" (Entjudung) jako metodzie usuniÄ™cia "nadwy?ki konsumentów".

The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.