bureaucracy Quotes

The revolt of society against the bureaucracy was successful. The ringleaders joined the ranks of the bureaucrats.

The crushed party bureaucracy went over en masse to the victors\' camp. Russian history took a different course.

Neophytes of democracy are mostly renegades of the party bureaucracy in search of a new trough.

The best way to put the federal bureaucracy back on a leash is to make it obey the laws the people write.

When you start playing tennis, you don\'t imagine there\'s a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.

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.

[Leftists] have all these embeds in their bureaucracy and in the judiciary. So even when they lose elections they have ample positions of power occupied by career invisibles.

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.

I don\'t know if Trump was readily prepared for having an entire embedded bureaucracy trying to undermine him. But he\'s gonna be able to deal with it because he\'s faced these kinds of things in his life before. And I think that he is so committed to what he thinks will make this country great, so committed to the things he believes will reverse the fortunes of this country, no way is he going to be rendered depressed and despondent and give up the agenda. He\'s tougher than that. He\'s certainly more committed than that.

That massiveness of bureaucracy at the VA is chronic and has been chronic.

I think that the real tragedy of Greece - aside of the savagery of European bureaucracy, Brussels bureaucracy and northern banks, which was really savage - is that the Greek crisis didn\'t have to erupt. It could have been taken care of pretty easily at the very beginning. But it happened and Syriza came into office with a declared commitment to combat it, and in fact as I recall they actually called a referendum, which horrified Europe.

Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin\'s \'Red bureaucracy\' as a \'secular priesthood.

After the reunification, there was a certain sense of foreignness because daily life in the former East German states was completely turned inside out - everything from the shops to the bureaucracy to the working world.

I have already spoken to three US Presidents. They come and go, but politics stay the same at all times. Do you know why? Because of the powerful bureaucracy. When a person is elected, they may have some ideas. Then people with briefcases arrive, well dressed, wearing dark suits, just like mine, except for the red tie, since they wear black or dark blue ones. These people start explaining how things are done. And instantly, everything changes. This is what happens with every administration.

You go to Paris, or you go to Portugal, you go to Poland, and you ask, \'Who are you people?\' They\'ll tell you, we\'re Portuguese, we\'re Spanish, we\'re Polish. Who are the people that are really European? The people in Brussels, in the E.U. bureaucracy. Europe has not been able to move to the level of patriotic identification with the concept.

For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road.

Yet the proletariat has not only a vanguard, but also a rearguard, and besides the proletariat there are the peasantry and the bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Effectively, the EU is a very powerful bureaucracy, dominated now by the German elite, which is backed by the rest of the European Union members.

This is what these associations are trying to do: which is again put bureaucracy, put politicians, in between parents and their children, this is why Virginians elected me in the fall. This is why we went to work on day one and on day one we reaffirmed the rights of parents to make these decisions.

Communism and capitalism are only the guise of bureaucracy, its true face is corruption.

Moving with the crowd at the same time and without effort is a means of transportation in the country of the victorious bureaucracy. (Anatoly Yurkin)

Corruption is a ritual of bureaucracy. (Anatoly Yurkin)

The history of bureaucracy is paved with the remains of anti-bureaucratic utopias.

The bureaucracy reminds people that they are just animals in the zoo of authorities.

A corrupt official is a Mercantile operator of missing competences. (Anatoly Yurkin)

Corruption is always the Olympic games for lack of competence. (Anatoly Yurkin)

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.

Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.

n terms of the logistics of that from a title perspective, we have not talked about that nor do we typically care very much. We're not large on bureaucracy. My brothers and I said to each other when we started in this business that as a collective we can do far more than any one of us can do individually. And that's really what guides our relationship - this sense of camaraderie. And it is a family business, and we work together collaboratively as a family.