Quotes About Bureaucracy

Karol Wojty?a, the disciple who was a product of the Church in the modern world, not of the Roman bureaucracy.

If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National.

It took nearly half an hour for the bus to creep forward until it approached the heavy, fortress-like building of the border check-point. When Bryce saw the high barbed-wire fence with it's V-shaped barrier on the top stretching off in both directions, he shook his head in disbelief. Two days ago, he had driven across this border between New York and Connecticut at about sixty-five mils an hour with hardly a second thought.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.

The government can catch a hare with an oxcart!

Paperwork could kill.

When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!

Bull had a sentimental streak about the old days in America, especially 1910, when you could get morphine in a drugstore without prescription and Chinese smoked opium. in their evening windows and the country was wild and brawling and free, with abundance and any kind of freedom for everyone. His chief hate was Washington bureaucracy; second to that, liberals; then cops.

Soon after Donald Trump was inaugurated, I got a letter from France's interior ministry informing me that I was now French. By the time it arrived, I'd been French for nearly two weeks without even knowing it.

In typical Washington fashion, nothing gets reformed until a disaster happens.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

It saddens me when public officials and bureaucrats are criticized for ulterior motives, none of which I have ever found in a government bureaucrat, or when someone personalizes disagreements.

The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.

Gone are the days when you could go to an orphanage or a centre and apply for adopting a child there. Everything is online now, and under one umbrella.

What drives me crazy is when you have a supervisor in government, and they report into 12 other supervisors. That's unacceptable.

Much worse than the unavoidable inefficiencies of large government is the failure to fund the government we need.

The immigration process is so unbelievably complicated and expensive and endless!

A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.

If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.

I have had a long tug-of-war going on with the FDA, in particular, and with other regulatory agencies, and it has nothing to do with vaccines.

Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

Every revolution evaporates," said Kafka, "leaving behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy." This is true not only of governments, but of individuals: the moment of realization, of inspiration, becomes institutionalized, trivialized.

seventy-three thousand pages of IRS regulations, he laughed at the very suggestion.