Quotes About Bureaucracy

Putin was very careful to gradually sort of rotate people in and out of power, to make sure that he had competent bureaucrats by his side at all times, to keep the machine running.

It takes a little time to get a visa to Mexico. They don't let just anybody in.

But, alas, nobody anticipated the United States Department of Homeland Security.

After we'd moved into 81, we had placed an order for a phone, and waited. First a man came by to see if we lived where we said we did. Then two men visited to make a study of our situation. Then another man appeared to find out if we really wanted a phone. The process was very French, and made me laugh, especially when I thought of how quickly such a transaction would have taken place in the States.

Medicine then must have been such an exciting, desperate, violent business; nowadays it is all pills and bureaucracy.

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Just tick a few boxes, agree to the terms and conditions and wait for the automated reply that says it's all gone through and we're now husband and wife. Why has that not been set up?

I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.

What we have in common is a mass men, a mass bureaucracy, and a manipulation of everyone to act smoothly, but with the illusion that he follows his own decisions and opinions.

I prefer a thief to a Congressman. A thief will take your money and be on his way, but a Congressman will stand there and bore you with the reasons why he took it.

The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.

Americans spend 6 billion hours a year filling out their tax reforms.

Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you.

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

The government favors the most diplomatic language. That's why any letter to them should always start with, "Dear turkeys and foul maggots..."

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

I went to the UN and even the guidebook was spineless.