Bureaucracy quotes

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◆ I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I give you money and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I can't imagine a scenario that I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. To some skeptical friend, 'Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut, I've got the documentation right here... It's in my file at home. ...Under "D".'

- Mitch Hedberg100

◆ Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise -- bureaucrats.

- Alvin Toffler99

◆ Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.

- Donald Rumsfeld99

◆ Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

- Richard M Nixon99

◆ You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

- Thomas Sowell99

◆ Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

- Honore De Balzac99

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

- Franz Kafka99

◆ Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible

- Javier Pascual Salcedo99

◆ Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work

- Albert Einstein99

◆ A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

- Harry S Truman99

◆ Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.

- Bill Maher99

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

- John Hickenlooper99

◆ I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

- Kenny Guinn99

◆ If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

- Morality99

◆ If there is a way to delay in important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it

- Chris Evert99