“Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.”
P. J. O'Rourke
“Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work”
Albert Einstein
“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.”
Thomas Sowell
“"Corpocracy" is large-scale corporate America's tendency to be like the government bureaucracy.”
Richard Darman
“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.”
George Bernard Shaw
“not wasted on government bureaucracy or frivolous projects.”
Jim Kolbe
“a formula for bureaucracy building, government intrusion and a stifling of economic growth -- in other words, many potential unintended negative consequences.”
Orson Swindle