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“In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.”

Reality Higher Cost Waste Spending Productivity Reform Rising Bureaucracy

Author:Andrew Lansley

“A civil servant doesn't make jokes.”

Government Jokes Servant Bureaucracy Civil Servants

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.”

Men Political Decision Perfect Responsibility He Man Manage Bureaucracy Bureaucrats

Book:Once Around the Sun

Source: Once Around the Sun

“We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy.”

Real Problem America Democracy Roots Management Absence Corporate Bureaucracy Corporate America

Author:Carl Icahn

“There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.”

Century Mediocrity Committees 21st Century Bureaucracy Government Bureaucracy

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“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.”

People Position Masters Relation Structure Clients Bureaucracy Bureaucrats Government Bureaucracy

Author:Alan Keyes

“It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.”

Jobs Political Lines Impossible Bureaucracy Bureaucrats Improbable

Book:Century of the Wind

Source: Century of the Wind

“Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.”

Has Beens Problem Political Given Too Much Collections Bureaucracy

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.”

Giving Government Birth Benefits Stubborn Bureaucracy Bureaucrats Nonconformity Maternity Government Bureaucracy

Author:Dale Dauten

“The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly more over here, or slightly more over there, but you need both. And balance is basically the greatest task in leadership. Organizations have to have continuity, and yet if there is not enough new challenge, not enough change, they become empty bureaucracies, awfully fast.”

Ifs Needs Different Enough Challenges Business Balance Tasks Empty Organization Bureaucracy Continuity Different Times New Challenges

Author:Peter Drucker

“The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It is modest only on this one point, however, because this officially nonexistent bureaucracy simultaneously attributes the crowning achievements of history to its own infallible leadership. Though its existence is everywhere in evidence, the bureaucracy must be invisible as a class. As a result, all social life becomes insane.”

Social Results Powerful Existence Class Achievement Evidence Claims Invisible Insane Attributes Modest Bureaucracy Employed Social Life Infallible

Book:The Society of the Spectacle

Source: The Society of the Spectacle

“The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires no vaccinators, distributes no vaccine. It is a small Geneva bureaucracy run by several hundred international delegates whose annual votes tell the organization what to do but not how to do it.…The only substantial resource that WHO has cultivated is information and expertise.”

Government Running Information Authority Hundred Resources Vote Organization International Bureaucracy Expertise Vaccines Annuals Delegates Geneva

Book:Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

Source: Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

“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.”

Way Want States Government Running Campaigns Efficient Bureaucracy State Government Government Bureaucracy

Author:Charlie Crist

“I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.”

Bigs Government Care Decision Company Health Care Bureaucracy Bureaucrats Aversion Insurance Companies Government Bureaucracy

Author:Gary Bauer

“Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.”

Care Today Results Millions Economy Cost Percent Red Competition Raised Health Care Tape Bureaucracy Coverage Outdated Stifling Red Tape National Economy Health Coverage

Author:John Shadegg

“It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him.”

“It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to be a hot-headed Bruce Willis character, fighting against the evil foreign enemy while despising the domestic bureaucracy. Men just wanted to focus on one big thing, leaving the thousands of smaller messes for the women around them to clean up.”

Men War Character Bigs Wanted Fighting Evil Waiting Enemy Focus Hot Clean Leaving Every Man Mess Giants Bureaucracy Big Things Asteroids Waiting For Something Always Waiting Hot Headed

Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government skills, except through the instrument of a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores. … And if they deem Soviet power a menace to our freedom (as I happen to), they will have to support large armies and air forces, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards, and the attendant centralization of power in Washington-even with Truman at the reins of it all.”

“They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back in three years. We couldn't stand the government. The bureaucracy kills you.”

Years Government Night Three Paid Extremes Three Years Bureaucracy Loan Day And Night Oversight

Author:Lee Iacocca

“What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy”

Winning Revolution Bureaucracy

Author:Sean Parker

“The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.”

Church Majors Bureaucracy

Book:Fighting the lamb's war: skirmishes with the American Empire : the autobiography of Philip Berrigan

Source: Fighting the lamb's war: skirmishes with the American Empire : the autobiography of Philip Berrigan

“Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.”

Individual Grows Growth Bureaucracy Brag

Author:Darrell Issa

“I have tried to be more flexible, but I always end up feeling more uncomfortable. Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.”

Important Ends Feelings My Own Style Office Uncomfortable Target Bureaucracy Flexible Retaining My Own Style

Author:Daniel Tammet

“In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]”

People Sometimes Law Goal Influence Benefits Accomplish Dedicated Devoted Bureaucracy

Author:Jerry Pournelle

“There have been brilliant satires about the tax bureaucracy before, from the Beatles song ‘The Taxman’ to the film ‘Harry’s War,’ but in some ways Jim Greenfield’s The Taxman Cometh outdoes them all. His tale of a little guy who can’t take it anymore is both compelling and timely, given the tax scandals we read about in Washington almost every day.”

Way Littles Has Beens War Film Guy Song Given Taxes Brilliant Tales Satire Compelling Bureaucracy Scandal Timely

Author:John Fund

“The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.”

People War Political Used Winning Battle Election Opponents Bureaucracy Misled Government Bureaucracy

Author:Lalu Prasad Yadav

“When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the state was forced to check the extension of bureaucracy and to put a stop to public works, then and then only did the Italians realize what it meant to have allowed themselves to be made one of the most heavily taxed nations in the world.”

World Made States Government Nations Realizing Checks Dry Abundance Fund Extensions Bureaucracy Fountain Impossibility Loan Borrowing Negotiating Dry Up

Book:As We Go Marching

Source: As We Go Marching

“Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.”

Fundamentals Bureaucracy

Author:Christopher Dodd

“Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.”

Greater Areas Murder Congress Committed Trials Bureaucracy New Orleans

Author:Aaron Broussard

“Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration.”

People Government Team Majors Planning Administration Servant Agency Department Temporary Trusted Bureaucracy Acquaintance Government Bureaucracy Civil Servants

Author:Richard V. Allen

“In the first place, bureaucracies never become efficient; they're never going to get rid of administrative costs; they're never going to reduce them. That's not the purpose of bureaucracies. It's to increase those things.”

Firsts Care Purpose Cost Increase Health Care Efficient Bureaucracy Administrative

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“And if you like socialized medicine, you will love this government bureaucracy under [then-Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee] Al Gore that will actually cost seniors who get $500 a year in prescription drugs right now - it will end up costing seniors more money and take away control from those seniors.”

“The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude.”

Feels States Seems Government Answers Gratitude Prove Built Structure Privilege Conservative Welfare Conception Apathy Citizenship Bureaucracy Reluctant Welfare State

Author:Roger Scruton

“An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.”

Liberty Threat Efficient Bureaucracy Bureaucrats Inefficiency Threats To Liberty

Book:Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life

Source: Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life

“There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right.”

“A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.”

Fit Officials Bureaucracy Bureaucrats

Author:Evan Esar

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

Men Values Belief Officials Reports Bureaucracy

Author:Arthur Helps

“Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.”

Ifs May Force Practice One Day Victim Nonsense Finding Yourself Bureaucracy

Book:Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things

Source: Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things

“Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.”

People More Time Bureaucracy

Author:Evan Esar

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

Records Being True Bureaucracy

Book:Complete writings: with variant readings

Source: Complete writings: with variant readings

“Paperwork is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of life where none exists.”

Appearance Bureaucracy Maintaining Fluid Paperwork Embalming

Author:Robert H. Meltzer

“Recognition of the inevitability of comprehensive bureaucratization does not solve the problems that arise out of it.”

Doe Problem Solve Arise Recognition Bureaucracy Comprehensive Inevitability

Book:Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

“So many signatures for such a small heart.”

Heart Bureaucracy Signatures

Author:Mother Teresa

“Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.”

Persons Whole Fate Essence Thirds Bureaucracy Third Person

Author:Alexandra Kollontai

“Poor fellow, he suffers from files.”

Suffering Poor Fellows Bureaucracy Files

Author:Aneurin Bevan

“My biggest hope that we're going to make it here is that this thinking is being manifested & really employed by the young world. Will they be going fast enough to overcome the initiatives of the bureaucracies & the fears operative in those bureaucracies? It's a very touch & go question.”

Thinking World Enough Young Overcoming Initiative Bureaucracy Employed Spectacular

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit... they're a bunch of wimps.”

Bigs Purpose Animal Rich Originals Quitting Bunch Saving Fund Feds Animal Rights Bureaucracy Fed Up Save A Life Wimps Greenpeace

Author:Paul Watson

“The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.”

Men Important Opportunity Decision He Man Importance Regard Luck Denied Bureaucracy

Author:C. Northcote Parkinson

“But what began in 1941 was a process of destruction not planned in advance, not organized centrally by any agency. There was no blueprint and there was no budget for destructive measures. They were taken step by step, one step at a time. Thus came about not so much a plan being carried out, but an incredible meeting of minds, a consensus - mind reading by a far-flung bureaucracy.”

“All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines. The more suffocatingly enclosed we are - tamed by television, controlled by mortgages and bureaucracy - the louder our wild genes scream in aggression, anger and depression.”

Needs Humans Light Hate Television Creatures Shining Controlled Scream Genes Aggression Thrill Bureaucracy Mortgage Wildness Confinement Tamed Joie De Vivre Wild Creatures

Author:Jay Griffiths

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