Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
- Milton FriedmanThe perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
- Aaron KrachBureaucracy is the death of all sound work
- Albert EinsteinCongress, 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 RumsfeldStrive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.
- Donald RumsfeldThe only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
- Eugene McCarthyI bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don`t need a receipt for the doughnut. I give you money and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don`t need to bring ink and paper into this. I can`t imagine a scenario that I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. To some skeptical friend, `Don`t even act like I didn`t get that doughnut, I`ve got the documentation right here... It`s in my file at home. ...Under "D".`
- Mitch HedbergEvery revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
- Franz KafkaThe larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.
- Dennis PragerYou will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
- Thomas SowellBureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
- Brock BlassingameBureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
- Honore de BalzacBureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible
- Javier Pascual SalcedoAny change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
- Richard M. Nixon