Quotes About Bureaucracy

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It's easier to be the aspirational leader when the thing you're building doesn't exist. But now it exists, and you're not aspirational anymore. Now you're just the chief bureaucrat. Bureaucrats don't inspire awe.

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

I adopted a baby. I wanted a highway, but it was a lot of red tape.

Funcionarios" de la caridad, pero con un corazón estéril.

The 'do nothing everything will be all right' default plan is determined by the IRS and government.

I had arrived at the airport one hour early so that, in accordance with airline procedures, I could stand around.

As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization in education is crucial to both freedom and excellence.

The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.

I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.

Bureaucrats complicate. It gives them more work to do. It gives them job security. It means promotions as ever more bureaucrats are added to the Ministry of Redundancy.

A civil servant doesn't make jokes

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission

I believe we should all pay our tax with a smile. I tried...but they wanted cash.

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.

it's surprising the depths of ignorance and naïveté that made so many otherwise intelligent people believe that a centralized bureaucracy might be a socially superior vehicle for managing the production and distribution of goods and services than a private firm that must compete with rivals to deliver the same services or make the same products.

What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable force. It is the nation's largest creditor, debtor, lender, employer, consumer, contractor, grantor, property owner, tenant, insurer, health-care provider, and pension guarantor. Moreover, with aggrandized police powers, what it does not control directly it bans or mandates by regulation.

Moreover, the bureaucracy will be of the noblest and most virtuous sort, with no personal, political, or ideological agenda, motivated solely and completely by its technical know-how in and public-spiritedness for the general good and welfare.

We (the British) invented bureaucracy. India just perfected it.

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.