I sighed. I hated the maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with it is to smile and act stupid. That way, no one gets confused.
Bureaucracy Quotes (144 Quotes)
When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.
The image of bureaucracy is horrible and keeps getting worse.
Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq has a bureaucracy, Iraq has wealth. Iraq has an educated class of people who are positioned to come in and take over.
Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.
Class and race play a big part in it and it's bad communication on the part of the bureaucracy also.
For me, it's money, ... The city is so tiny. All the money gets sucked up by the bureaucracy. Very little comes back for improvements
Dilbert's trials and tribulations as a corporate cog make him an ideal mobile game star. The game will appeal to anyone who has experienced cubicle life or has dealt with office bureaucracy.
Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.
The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.
Bureaucracy and regulation is something we need to fight in Europe.
FEMA has lost its way. FEMA has been submerged in a sea of bureaucracy,
The trouble we have with the European Union is like any big bureaucracy, it's rather slow to act. It's taken over a year to get from a policy paper to an action plan, and it'll perhaps be next year till that money comes through.
The initiative doesn't provide enough money and creates more state bureaucracy. If the auditor quadrupled staff to do all these audits, it could cost 90 million a biennium.
The title is director, not ambassador. The skill sets are very different. The goal is not to grow a bureaucracy.
I don't want to build a bureaucracy, but I want to see that we have safe water to drink.
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
The consistent anarchist should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat. Some sort of council communism is the natural form of revolutionary socialism in an industrial society. It reflects the intuitive understanding that democracy is largely a sham when the industrial system is controlled by any form of autocratic elite, whether of owners, managers, and technocrats, a ''vanguard'' party, or a State bureaucracy.
We know a great deal of the bureaucracy was occupied in overseeing tribute labor for the state, so I suspect a large percentage of the quipu had to do with labor.
German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.
We hope to drive a wedge into the gross abuse of bureaucracy.
What you see is the bureaucracy doing the bidding of the representatives, which are doing the bidding of the electorate,
I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more productive, and trying to keep the bureaucracy from getting in their way.
The dentist who uses an airplane on business, the guy who owns a carpet store, they don't have the infrastructure to handle the bureaucracy.
The goal was to help rescue 200 dogs, ... They're overjoyed that they were able to rescue 80, but clearly disappointed and dismayed at the bureaucracy, which prevented them from taking the full 200.
It's going to be more expensive and more layers of bureaucracy.
bureaucracy has committed murder here in New Orleans.
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
To say people are upset is an understatement. FSA offices are institutions in these communities, institutions that are providing vital services helping farmers and others in the related agricultural industries wade through the bureaucracy of loan payments, drought and disaster assistance and other farm programs,
We can't be slowed excess bureaucracy. Anything that helps get our best ideas in Wisconsin into the global marketplace faster is good for Wisconsin.
No one, it seems, even those at the highest level, seems to be able to break through the bureaucracy,
We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we are against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We are helping 107 We spent 146 billion. With that money, we bought a 2-million-dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity.
We must learn the right lessons for the future, ... If we overstretch the union and do not reduce the excess of bureaucracy, it will be difficult for us to succeed.
Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area. And bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.
Some management positions vacated by these resignations will be eliminated, consistent with my plans to flatten and streamline City Hall bureaucracy,
I had given up the acting to be a schoolteacher, but I just couldn't handle it, it was too much pressure. I couldn't handle the bureaucracy.
In my opinion, this is the nose under the tent, and eventually they will move the whole thing to Atlanta. It demonstrates a shift from being a ministry to a corporate bureaucracy.
The problem there is if you want to give direction to the bureaucracy to stop doing certain things or to start doing new things, you've got to have that neck in place to transfer the signals from the brain -- the president and the cabinet -- down to the career layer and the body.
There is nothing in this letter that gives Senator Boxer any comfort that a catastrophic earthquake in California would be handled any better than Katrina. We just hope and pray that the earthquakes will wait until DHS finishes all their bureaucracy.
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries the aristocracy, of idols the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy it can only worship the national idols.
Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
We have forgotten in America that a democracy is the most difficult kind of government to maintain. It is the hardest kind of government under which to live. It is hardest to maintain because of the widespread political corruption to which it so easily lends itself. Our drift today toward complete totalitarian bureaucracy is one that threatens immediately the very freedoms for which our own boys are dying.
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.
Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.
We're not talking about creating a new bureaucracy. We're talking about taking a number of bureaucracies and consolidating them into one streamlined organization.
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.