The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Brooks Atkinson
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
Richard M. Nixon
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
Hyman Rickover
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
Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.
James H Boren
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
A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
John Hickenlooper
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
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise -- bureaucrats.
Alvin Toffler