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Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.
Walter Walker
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An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Eugene McCarthy
3.
We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.
Nong ?uc Manh
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The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.
Philip Berrigan
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
Jack Kerouac
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By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.
Edward T. Hall
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Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.
Brooks Atkinson
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Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
Jaime Lerner
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A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.
Evan Esar
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This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.
Grover Norquist
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Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.
Christopher Dodd
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The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.
Robert Baer
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the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.
Hannah Arendt
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Things there are no solution to: Inflation, bureaucracy & dandruff.
Malcolm Forbes
22.
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
Gore Vidal
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Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
William Blake
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Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
Richard M. Nixon
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The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.
Indira Gandhi
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We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism.
Sonny Bono
28.
An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
Arthur Helps
29.
Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.
James Fallows
30.
We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.
Jennifer Pahlka
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There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
Benedict Cumberbatch
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Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.
Evan Esar
34.
I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
Paloma Faith
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I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.
Rush Limbaugh
36.
What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy
Sean Parker
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It is the nature of the pig, that if there's nothing to stop her from stepping into abreuvoir - then it will. Nothing will stop bureaucracy from continuing to serve us "good" and protecting us from "evil" - if we'll let them do that.
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
39.
The bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop.
Ian Somerhalder
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Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.
James Cook
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The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state
Karl Marx
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The American political system is a giant bureaucracy.
Rush Limbaugh
43.
One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.
Gerald R. Ford
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We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.
Barack Obama
45.
We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.
John Sununu
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Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.
Darrell Issa
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UN is made even more complex by the constant interplay of politics and bureaucracy and can certainly be bewildering for a novice.
Kofi Annan
48.
America isn't Wollman Rink, but I think almost everybody watching, and certainly the people who voted for him, have had frustrating experiences with bureaucrats and bureaucracy, private as well as public, pushing them around.
Paul Solman
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I talked about the consolidation of power in the hands of the corporate bureaucracy, as distinct from the stockholders. To this view, I still strongly adhere.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Congress is supposed to fund the IRS, and it has been steadily reducing the number of auditors and tax collectors the IRS has at the very time that the tax system has become vastly more complicated. And of course America continues to grow, so there's an increasing number of tax returns coming in. The IRS responds by doing exactly what Congress expects of them. That shouldn't surprise anyone. All bureaucracies do what they are told.
David Cay Johnston