Quotes on Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Author: Honore Balzac

We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.

Author: Eric Cantor

Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy.

Author: Arthur Capper

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

Author: John Hickenlooper

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

Author: Franz Kafka

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Author: Eugene McCarthy

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

Author: Mary McCarthy

When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees. As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law.

Author: John Mica

When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees.

Author: John Mica

TSA serves as the operator, administrator and regulator for the nation's transportation security. But in fact, the TSA bureaucracy does all it can to thwart any conversion to a system with more private-sector operations and strong federal oversight and standards. This agency cannot, and should not, do it all.

Author: John Mica

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

Author: John Mill

When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands.

Author: Brian Mulroney

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

Author: Charles Pickering

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

Author: Joseph Schumpeter