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Quotes About Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
~ Laurence J. Peter
My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.
~ Harmony Korine
Governments cannot do innovation. There are too many audits, and no one stays in a role for long enough.
~ Ajay Piramal
Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1,000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right.
~ Theresa May
No longer does it make sense for an inventor to ask himself, "Can I make a better mousetrap?" because the threat is greater that the government might ban his mousetrap, however safe and efficient it is.
~ Thomas E. Woods Jr.
He [King George III] has erected a multitude of New Offices and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Haz ve ac?n?n aleyhimize yoz bir ittifak kurdu?u yerde, cennet ve cehennem ayn? korkunç bürokrasinin farkl? parçalar?d?r.
~ Thomas Ligotti
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
~ Thomas Sowell
If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
~ Thomas Sowell
I can buy a shotgun any time of day without the slightest background check, but if I need something for my sniffles, it's six forms of ID and complete school transcripts. The government has essentially created a system where if I want to clear a head cold, the easiest cure is to blow my brains out.
~ Tim Dorsey
But instead they tell you they'll come to fix your cable between noon and five, and I say, okay, I'll pay my next bill between July and November, but they don't laugh.
~ Tim Dorsey
Bureaucratic nonsense at airports drives me crazy.
~ Dominic Monaghan
After this interview, I'm going to immigration to try to sort out my Green Card, just like any other normal person.
~ Emily Blunt
If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.
~ Jeb Bush
The best way to put the federal bureaucracy back on a leash is to make it obey the laws the people write.
~ Josh Hawley
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
~ Karl Marx
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
~ Joseph A. Schumpeter
Bureaucracy is the only form of human organization that can manage to pass a hot potato through a small crack.
~ Norman Mailer
The Under-secretary of Understanding.
~ Norton Juster
People don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't like me…If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes.
~ Oliver North
Solo después de casarse descubrió Galip que en la vida de aquella persona anónima a la que las estadísticas y los encasillamientos burocráticos llaman ama de casa (aquella mujer con detergente e hijos que Galip jamás había podido relacionar con Rüya) existía una región así de secreta, así de misteriosa y así de resbaladiza.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Belediye binas?n?n ikinci kat?ndaki Rizeli, kuyruktaki vatandaÅŸlar? azarlayan önemli ve meÅŸgul bir adamd?.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Mevlut beÅŸ dakika ayn? köÅŸede durursa kald?r?m? iÅŸgal etti diye arabas?n? al?p parçalayan belediye memurlar?, büyük ÅŸirketlerin kald?r?mlarda yürümeyi zorlaÅŸt?ran buzdolaplar?na hiç ses etmiyordu.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
~ Oscar Wilde