Best government & bureaucracy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As the Nazi regime developed over the years, the whole structure of decision-making was changed. At first there were laws. Then there were decrees implementing laws. Then a law was made saying, ‘There shall be no laws.’ Then there were orders and directives that were written down, but still published in ministerial gazettes. Then there was government by announcement; orders appeared in newspapers. Then there were the quiet orders, the orders that were not published, that were within the bureaucracy, that were oral. And finally, there were no orders at all. Everybody knew what he had to do.”

Years Firsts Made Stills Whole Government Law Order Decision Written Changed Quiet Structure Newspapers Decision Making Regimes Nazi Bureaucracy Decree Announcements Implementing

Author:Raul Hilberg

“Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.”

Self Government Politics Products Competition Forgotten Extremes Enterprise Minorities Elites Frustrated Bureaucracy Taxation Free Enterprise Oppressive Governments

Book:The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

“I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.”

Different Done Government Law Different Things Bureaucracy Government Bureaucracy

Author:John Bolton

“Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities, is not exercising compulsion, it is evident that the more varied and comprehensive the regulation becomes, the more the state becomes a despotic power as against the individual. For the fragment of control over the government which he exercises through his vote is in no effective sense proportionate to the authority exercised over him by the government.”

“To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.”

Want Problem Government Jobs Poverty Politician Promise Threat Cancer Solve Unemployment Bureaucracy No Problem Solved Problems

Author:L. Neil Smith

“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.”

Knows Sometimes Problem Government Too Much Bureaucracy Secrecy Leaks

Author:Joan Claybrook

“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.”

Source: Contributions to Modern Economics

“By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.”

Ifs Should States Government Turns Pay Honest Taxes Members Standards Paid Workers Income Voting Bureaucracy Taxpayers Accounting Unorthodox Government Workers

Author:Ilana Mercer

“The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism - a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule.”

Firsts Self Government Might Democratic Unity Socialism Transition Bureaucracy Owing

Author:Salvador Allende

“Anarchism is opposed to states, armies, slavery, the wages system, the landlord system, prisons, monopoly capitalism, oligopoly capitalism, state capitalism, bureaucracy, meritocracy, theocracy, revolutionary governments, patriarchy, matriarchy, monarchy, oligarchy, protection rackets, intimidation by gangsters, and every other kind of coercive institution. In other words, anarchism opposes government in all its forms.”

“Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that it gives you the power to use government force to control the lives of others? A dispassionate scientist or a zealot? In government, the zealots eventually take over.”

Giving Wells Littles Use Government Jobs Force Scientist Volunteer Bureaucracy Lives Of Others Zealot Dispassionate

Author:John Stossel

“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.”

Helping Government Support Teacher Discipline Bureaucracy Reduction Government Bureaucracy Good Discipline

Author:Michael Gove

“In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action.”

Ifs Needs Government Action Order Information Seeking Realms Dedicated Bureaucracy Taking Action

Author:Meg Greenfield

“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.”

People Trying Real Government Odd Novelists Idle Bureaucracy Speculation Bureaucrats

Book:Second words: selected critical prose

Source: Second words: selected critical prose

“The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.”

Believe Government Interesting Servant Sincerity Bureaucracy Most Interesting

Book:Wars I have seen

Source: Wars I have seen

“I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.”

Thinking Government Moving Bureaucracy Civil Society Government Bureaucracy

Author:Wangari Maathai

“Sometimes I feel frustration at the bureaucracy for not moving fast enough to deliver in the way that I would prefer. But that is probably because I have worked for many years in the civil society, which tends to move much faster than government.”

Way Feels Years Sometimes Enough Government Moving Faster Frustration Bureaucracy Civil Society Moving To Fast

Author:Wangari Maathai

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