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Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.

Javier Pascual Salcedo

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

Eugene 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

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

Mary McCarthy

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Honore de Balzac

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

John Stuart Mill

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Eugene McCarthy

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

Dale Dauten

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

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work

Albert Einstein

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

Franz Kafka

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

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

Hyman Rickover

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

P. J. O\'Rourke

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

John Hickenlooper

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.

Bill Maher

I am against the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method.

Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn

There were a lot of people who were Reaganauts going in, as there are always people who are conservatives going in. But they don't act like conservatives after they get there. There is skill to maneuvering the bureaucracy. And I think one argument I could make would be, I've never run for office, I'm not a conventional politician, that's for sure, but I have been in government, and I know how it works. I have actually gotten things done in the government.

John Robert Bolton