Bureaucracy Quotes

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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

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don`t need.

- Bill Maher

I look at the news, I see people starving, I am crying. I`m a total mess. You try to think how you`re going to break through this cobweb of problems and bureaucracy and how on Earth anybody is going to make any change. (Live 8 press conference, 7-4-2005)

- Björk

Publicly, we`re saying we`re better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse, since the high-level people are scared of being held responsible for 9/11.

- David Hunt

When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that`s what the bureaucracy understands.

- Brian Mulroney

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

- Donald Rumsfeld

Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.

- Jesse Helms

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

- Mary McCarthy

Gay activist groups are already starting to instruct same-sex couples to file joint income tax returns, so the Bush Administration should establish procedures right now in order that the bureaucracy will know how to handle the paperwork.

- Phyllis Schlafly

.. So, you have to be daring to do things like this, because the world is not easily accepting of filmmaking. There will always be some sort of an obstacle, and the worst of all obstacles is the spirit of bureaucracy. You have to find your way to battle bureaucracy. You have to outsmart it, to outgut it, to outnumber it, to outfilm them -- that`s what you have to do.

- Werner Herzog

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

- Leon Trotsky

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.

- Mark Kennedy

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.

- Alan Keyes

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

- Christophe

This is crazy, ... This is a rule that was designed before the world changed, pre-9/11. You can`t stand on bureaucracy if we`re going to protect and save lives, and that`s what these teams do.

- Phil Gordon

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.

- Suzanne Fields

Well, that`s true... to me, communism is a... it`s a graveyard of skulls, of very unhappy people, below the level of the top bureaucracy.

- E. Howard Hunt

I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more productive, and trying to keep the bureaucracy from getting in their way.

- Ai Qing

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.

- Alain Vais

Modern democracy was no doubt the most wholesome and needed reaction against the abuses of absolutism and of a selfish, often corrupt, bureaucracy.

- Alex Culbertson

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.

- Alex Hertenstein

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.

- Alexander Hamilton

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

- Alison Lewis

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.

- Allan Collins

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

- Allan Reid

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.

- Allen Stockberger

The space domain for manned spaceflight is no longer the domain of a huge bureaucracy spending billions of dollars. We can do it privately,

- Angela Moody

The space domain for manned spaceflight is no longer the domain of a huge bureaucracy spending billions of dollars. We can do it privately.

- Angela Moody

an enormous new bureaucracy.

- Anwar Phillips

It`s very difficult for the Iraqi government to govern because the security situation is still very unstable. Among the most pressing problems, the most pressing is to try to construct a military and security bureaucracy that is not essentially tainted by militias or militia loyalties.

- Athuraliye Rathna

All too often, ... the goal in the bureaucracy is to cover their own backside rather than to actually make sure the money does good.

- Atsuo Saito

In my opinion, this is the nose under the tent, and eventually they will move the whole thing to Atlanta. It demonstrates a shift from being a ministry to a corporate bureaucracy.

- Audrey Betcher

We`re trying to reach them, but bureaucracy holds things up. While things go through channels, people are suffering.

- Barbara Thomas

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work

- Albert Einstein

Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.

- Donald Rumsfeld

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

- Eugene McCarthy

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won`t.

- Bruce Finney

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

- Franz Kafka

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.

- Thomas Sowell

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

- Brock Blassingame

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

- Honore de Balzac

Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible

- Javier Pascual Salcedo