Bureaucracy Quotes - Page 9

• Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by which special interests sought to exploit the public, the great mass of consumers and taxpayers.

  Ralph Raico

  Philosophy, Mean, Political

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• We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

  Tom Peters

  Teaching, Reform, Conformity

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• Citizens everywhere, and especially soldiers, should remember that entrenched bureaucracy, whatever the level, can be overcome. You've got to stick to it, be polite but firm, and just not take no for an answer.

  William G. Bainbridge

  Army, Soldier, Sticks

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• Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Memories, Games, Play

  Ariel Dorfman (2012). “Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile”, p.9, Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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• Combination does not produce though mergers and combinations are still the accepted panacea. In Big business there appears to be increasing aridity, bureaucracy, and stultifying sacrifice of initiative and above all fear.

  Reginald Fessenden

  Acceptance, Sacrifice, Science

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• My biggest hope that we're going to make it here is that this thinking is being manifested & really employed by the young world. Will they be going fast enough to overcome the initiatives of the bureaucracies & the fears operative in those bureaucracies? It's a very touch & go question.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Thinking, Overcoming, World

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• They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit... they're a bunch of wimps.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Wimps, Purpose

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• The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Opportunity, Men, Decision

  Parkinson's Law ch. 10 (1957)

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• Of course, the Clintons are not only corrupt but cynical as well. They accept that the progressive media, the foundations, the universities, the bureaucracies, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley honor power more than trendy left-wing politics; they well understand that their fans will, for them, make the necessary adjustments to contextualize Clinton criminality or amorality.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Media, Wings, Cynical

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Over and over again we learn that Obama nor any of his people high up in whatever bureaucracy can accomplish any of these things. They can't do a website. They can't roll out Obamacare. They can't improve health care. They can't run the VA. They can't run the IRS honestly. They turn as much of it as they can into a political weapon furthering the agenda of the president.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Obamacare, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There's a long history of presidents coming in, saying they're gonna to take on the bureaucracy. What they really mean is they're gonna try to shift the emphasis of where those bureaucrats are gonna work and how they're gonna spend their time towards achieving objectives that presidents want to achieve.

  Brian Balogh

  Mean, Long, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.

  Akio Morita

  Education, Jobs, People

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• Jihadis have a better bureaucracy than India.

  Adrian Levy

  Government, India

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• Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Government, Political, Levels

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• We are for aiding our allies by sharing of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we're against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We're helping 107. We've spent 146 billion dollars. With that money, we bought a 2 million dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya[n] government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Money, Blessing

  Ronald Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" Speech, www.reaganlibrary.gov. October 27, 1964.

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• Even CEOs police their own bureaucracy. Trump is not that. He does have more in common with these guys than most elected officials would have, particularly in the Obama administration. Obama didn't have anybody that'd ever worked in the private sector. All they had is a bunch of theoreticians who thought they were smarter than everybody that runs businesses in the private sector. And who knows what kind of pressure was brought to bear. Remember, Obama's agenda was one that was to be governed against the will of the people.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, People, Guy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Trump conducts meetings and actually tries to get something done rather than just have the meeting and rather than just announce a framework and rather than just touch on bullet points or outline points and to speak in large terms about what our four-year objectives are. My guess is that Trump gets in there, rolls up the sleeves, and starts talking about actual work that's going to be done, things that he wants to do, things he believes the American people elected him to do. And I think it probably is a stark contrast for people who basically work in a bureaucracy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Government, Servant, Jokes

  Tuer sans Gages (The Killer) act 1 (1958)

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• The European Union, ok, right, it has a bureaucracy, right. It`s sometimes difficult to deal with but so what? You hire a couple of people like me to work the European Union, and it can be done. It`s pretty good.

  Daniel Fried

  Couple, People, Done

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy.

  Carl Icahn

  Real, Roots, America

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• Companies are actually much better than governments and other bureaucracies at organizing in a holistically efficient way the extremely complex path from the examination of molecules all the way to the delivery of medicines to patients. Already in the conception and selection of research projects, companies would anticipate all the challenges down the line that they will need to overcome in order to achieve actual health impact. Bureaucratic organizations, by contrast, are notoriously bad at this sort of optimizing.

  Thomas Pogge

  Government, Order, Organization

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Jobs, Political, Lines

  Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage (1988). “Century of the Wind”, Pantheon Books

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• Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Political, Too Much, Problem

  "What's That Smell?". www.weeklystandard.com. October 23, 2006.

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• But what began in 1941 was a process of destruction not planned in advance, not organized centrally by any agency. There was no blueprint and there was no budget for destructive measures. They were taken step by step, one step at a time. Thus came about not so much a plan being carried out, but an incredible meeting of minds, a consensus - mind reading by a far-flung bureaucracy.

  Raul Hilberg

  Taken, Reading, Agency

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• All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines. The more suffocatingly enclosed we are - tamed by television, controlled by mortgages and bureaucracy - the louder our wild genes scream in aggression, anger and depression.

  Jay Griffiths

  Hate, Light, Shining

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