Bureaucracy Quotes - Page 5

• Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.

  Jeff Bezos

  Process

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• I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies - and agencies and their offices in Brussels.

  William Hague

  Cutting, Agency, Numbers

  "'The last chance election for Britain'". Speech by the Rt Hon William Hague MP, leader of the Conservative party, to the spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.

  Michael Gove

  Teacher, Government, Discipline

  "Why should any teacher ever vote Tory?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2010.

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• Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

  Gary Hamel

  Roles, Hierarchy, Process

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• The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.

  Henry H. Arnold

  Military, Science, People

  "The Wind and Beyond: Theodore von Karman, Pioneer in Aviation and Pathfinder in Science". Book by Theodore von Karman, p. 268, 1967.

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• The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.

  Bernard Crick

  Skills, Ideas, Consistency

  Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.143, University of Chicago Press

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• We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.

  Nong ?uc Manh

  Fighting, Corruption, Wastefulness

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• Things there are no solution to: Inflation, bureaucracy & dandruff.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Life, Inflation, Solutions

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• Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.

  Gary Larson

  Teacher, Strong, School

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• My measures will not be crippled by any bureaucracy. Here I don't have to worry about Justice; my mission is only to destroy and to exterminate; nothing more.

  Hermann Goring

  Justice, Worry, Goering

  Speech in Frankfurt on March 03, 1933. "Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny" by Edward Crankshaw, p. 48, 1956.

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• Nobody wants to disappoint the boss and get fired. But if the boss hasn't said this is important, it's going to die a slow death in bureaucracy and that explains a lot of the problems.

  Robert M. Edsel

  Boss, Important, Want

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Army, Surprise, Speed

  "Jeane Kirkpatrick". www.economist.com. December 19, 2006.

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• I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.

  Margaret Atwood

  Real, Government, People

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• The goal that the Obama team has is to fundamentally replace the historic America of self reliance, independence, the work ethic, the people who go out and achieve because they spend their lifetime doing the right things and they want to replace it with a politician dominated redistributionist bureaucracy which in the essence would mean the end of the America as it has been for the last 400 years.

  Newt Gingrich

  Team, Mean, Self

  "Glenn interviews Newt Gingrich". "Glenn Beck Radio Program", www.glennbeck.com.

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• [I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method.

  Tony Benn

  Philosophy, Rome, Laissez Faire

  "Encounter" Magazine, January 1963.

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• Leaks are good. There is too much secrecy in our government. Sometimes the government knows about a problem and it takes a leak to embarrass the bureaucracy and get them to do something about it.

  Joan Claybrook

  Government, Too Much, Problem

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

  Jerry Pournelle

  Burning, Investing, Progressive

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• It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large scale adaptations have to be made, central control is far more flexible. It may take two months to get an answer to a letter from a government department, but it takes twenty years for an industry under private enterprise to readjust itself to a fall in demand.

  Joan Robinson

  Fall, Years, Two

  Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.27, Academic Press

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• It is the nature of the pig, that if there's nothing to stop her from stepping into abreuvoir - then it will. Nothing will stop bureaucracy from continuing to serve us "good" and protecting us from "evil" - if we'll let them do that.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Pigs, Evil, Continuing

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• By the time the Deputy Minister presents a matter for decision to cabinet, he or she tends to present three options: ' the unacceptable', 'the politically courageous', and 'the bureaucrat-preferred' options. As such, it is usually best to get down into the department to the person doing the first drafts of any policy.

  Don Johnston

  Decision, Three, Matter

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• NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.

  Burt Rutan

  Risk, Innovation, Aversion

  "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 01, 2004.

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• Bureaucrats live on the fat of the land, while the rest of us stay skinny laboring to pay their salaries.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Land, Salary, Pay

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• In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Bulls, Bucks, Seven

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• I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.

  Nicholas II of Russia

  Russia, Clerks, Thousand

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• A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Ideas, Paper, Cleaning

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