The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
Sir Bernard Rowland Crick
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
Hyman Rickover
A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
John Hickenlooper
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Eugene McCarthy
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Peter
The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
John Stuart Mill
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Honore de Balzac
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
Mary McCarthy
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.
Kenny Guinn
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
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Franz Kafka
Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work
Albert Einstein
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
Joseph A. Schumpeter