Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.
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!
Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to 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.
As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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.
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.
Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.
A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.
There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.
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