Bureaucracy Quotes - Page 2

• I sighed. I hated the maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with it is to smile and act stupid. That way, no one gets confused.

  Kim Harrison

  Confused, Stupid, Passion

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• The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Thinking, Would Be, Bigs

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• Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.

  Bill Maher

  Funny, Atheist, Men

  "Is There A God?" by Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. October 9, 2002.

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• Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

  Christopher Bond

  Teacher, Children, Giving

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• I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

  Francesca Annis

  Religious, Hate, Desire

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• Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Medicine, Twenties, Firsts

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• If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Reputation, Bigs

  "JACK WELCH: 'If You Have A Reputation As A Big, Stiff Bureaucracy, You're Stuck'"by Kim Bhasin, www.businessinsider.com. February 27, 2012.

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• Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

  Michele Bachmann

  Light, Government, President

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• This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.

  Grover Norquist

  Military, Gun, Government Bureaucracy

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• An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.

  Arthur Helps

  Men, Belief, Reports

  "Organization in Daily Life: An Essay".

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• Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Mean, Men, Paper

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• I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.

  John Steinbeck

  Wall, Hate, Fighting

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.51, Penguin

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• Remove the document—and you remove the man.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Men, Remove, Documents

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2010). “The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.273, Random House

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• Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.

  Simone Weil

  Brother, Betrayal, Military

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• Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

  William Blake

  Records, Being True

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.392, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Sea, Office

  Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934) p. 34

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• When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees. As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law.

  John Mica

  Country, Believe, Airports

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• I have already spoken to three US Presidents. They come and go, but politics stay the same at all times. Do you know why? Because of the powerful bureaucracy. When a person is elected, they may have some ideas. Then people with briefcases arrive, well dressed, wearing dark suits, just like mine, except for the red tie, since they wear black or dark blue ones. These people start explaining how things are done. And instantly, everything changes. This is what happens with every administration.

  Vladimir Putin

  Powerful, Dark, People

  Source: en.kremlin.ru

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

  Widad Akrawi

  Creativity, Justice, Growth

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

  Karl Marx

  Philosophy, Circles, Political

  Karl Marx, Joseph O'Malley (1977). “Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy Of Right'”, p.47, CUP Archive

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• Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.

  Frank Herbert

  Government, Class, Aristocracy

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.198, Penguin

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• There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

  Gore Vidal

  Doe, Rebellious, Bureaucrats

  1968 Sex, Death and Money, preface. See Frost 338:84.

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• The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

  James C. Collins

  Business, Discipline, Purpose

  "No more heroes". “Madeleine Bunting's working lives column”, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2001.

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• A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

  John Hickenlooper

  Cities, Citizens, Faces

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• 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

  Running, Government, Campaigns

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