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Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace.
— Widad Akreyi
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— Scott Turow
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
— Madeleine Albright
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
— Bernard Crick
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status
— Laurence J. Peter
Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.
— John Sculley
My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.
— Harmony Korine
A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.
— Colin Greenwood
French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
— Albert Einstein
Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.
— Ronald Reagan
Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.
— James Woolsey
A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
— John Hickenlooper
It was wise to put bureaucrats in windowless offices.
— Helen Phillips
As Max Weber long ago pointed out, once one sets up a genuinely effective bureaucracy, it's almost impossible to get rid of it.
— David Graeber
To achieve peace, it is crucial to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy that prevents peace processes from advancing.
— Widad Akreyi
In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.
— Ilana Mercer
Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose ofgovernment intervention and mountains of bureaucracy. — George Carlin
In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.
— Charles E. McKenzie
This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.
— David Halberstam
In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.
— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Shit rolls downhill. Bureaucracy rolls faster.
— David Wellington
We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.
— Theresa May
Decades of the seniority rule had conferred influence in the Senate not on men who broke new ground but on men who were careful not to.
— Robert A. Caro
Up or out greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.
— James Fallows
What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy.
— Sean Parker
We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.
— Jennifer Pahlka
An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
— Eugene McCarthy
I was utterly, breathtakingly, and touchingly clueless. That's how folks like me get jobs like mine: honor outweighs common sense.
— Stephen L. Burns
Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.
— Frank Herbert
It comforted the great to deal with it and they knew, a man who could reduce any color to grey.
— John Le Carre
Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.
— Laurence Gonzales
Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
— Jaime Lerner
Communism is what happens when atheism meets bureaucracy.
— Theodore Beale
Rethink every aspect of bureaucracy.
— Newt Gingrich
Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.
— Mark Kennedy
I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.
— Dean Koontz
Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.
— Kollontai Alexandra
We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.
— Andrew Lansley
pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize.
— Arthur C. Brooks
The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.
— Philip Berrigan
Medicine then must have been such an exciting, desperate, violent business; nowadays it is all pills and bureaucracy.
— Julian Barnes
A good bureaucracy is the best tool of oppression ever invented.
— Frank Herbert
The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.
— Lev Grossman
Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon
— Patrick Hennessey
To the CIA, everyone's an outsider.
— Tim Weiner
Do you really understand all this army stuff?It helps not to be too bright, sir. — M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team
We need to get rid of all remnants of bureaucracy and bureaucratic thinking, and start thinking like entrepreneurs again.
— Larry Sanger
Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.
— Madam C. J. Walker
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
— James C. Collins
The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.
— Thomas Jefferson
Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.
— Hannah Arendt
Good ideas don't stand a chance against good bureaucracy.
— Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.
— Christopher Bond
Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.
— Robin Boyd
The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.
— Raul Ramos Y Sanchez
Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
— William S. Burroughs
We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.
— Nong Duc Manh
Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.
— Charles W. Pickering
The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
— Eugene McCarthy
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.
— Terry Winograd
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
— Hyman G. Rickover
The American people will regret the day I was crucified by politics and bureaucracy.Billy Mitchell — James D. Bradley
A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.
— Joe Haldeman
In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.
— Andrew Lansley
I don't want a lot of bureaucracy ... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious.
— Charlie Crist
In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
— Narendra Modi
I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.
— Carly Fiorina
The privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense ...
— Michael Swanwick
Any sensible government must learn to unleash the energy of its people and get them to perform instead of trying to get a bureaucracy to perform.
— Verghese Kurien
As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.
— Frederick Forsyth
Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.
— Walter Bagehot
There is no crueler hells then committee work ...
— Robert Jackson Bennett
