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In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]


Jerry Pournelle

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P. J. O'ROURKE The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the g...
EUGENE MCCARTHY Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
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HYMAN RICKOVER If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucra...
HYMAN RICKOVER The problem with this program is its premise that the state's central bureaucracy should control all...
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ALBERT EINSTEIN Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.
JAVIER PASCUAL SALCEDO Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible
JAVIER PASCUAL SALCEDO People understand bureaucracy and they understand sometimes it's a pain in the butt. And any time yo...
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LEON TROTSKY Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
UNKNOWN Sports bureaucracy in the United Kingdom has to be greatly reduced.
DAVID OWEN It's going to be more expensive and more layers of bureaucracy.
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW It's the nature of bureaucracy, I think, to issue statements like this.
MICHAEL BEHE The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all respons...
BROOKS ATKINSON Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.
JERRY BROWN Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
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DONALD RUMSFELD Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
RICHARD M. NIXON Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.
JAMES H BOREN I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the d...
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THOMAS SOWELL What we need to see are concrete measures aimed at getting the bureaucracy to pursue this objective,...
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ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT FEMA has lost its way. FEMA has been submerged in a sea of bureaucracy,
JOHN DINGELL an enormous new bureaucracy.
GARY LUNN It's hard getting through all the bureaucracy and harder still getting the signatures.
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ED BOLEN No one, it seems, even those at the highest level, seems to be able to break through the bureaucracy...
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ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing coun...
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WESLEY CLARK Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
FRANZ KAFKA Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy
FRANZ KAFKA In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.
CHRIS FUSSELL This is why people are aggravated with the federal government: People need help in our own country, ...
JOE LISZAK Nobody in the Washington regulatory bureaucracy gets fired for saying no.
BLAKE FARENTHOLD Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dange...
ARTHUR CAPPER The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
JOHN STUART MILL They care more about bureaucracy and building palaces for the elite than their own people.
BILL RICHARDSON In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bu...
NARENDRA MODI Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in t...
ALAN KEYES "Corpocracy" is large-scale corporate America's tendency to be like the government bureaucracy.
RICHARD DARMAN And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world
HONORE DE BALZAC There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
MARY MCCARTHY Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism
MARY MCCARTHY Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is the inefficiency
EUGENE J. MCCARTHY Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the ...
PAUL DICKSON We don't need to stifle our businesses with unnecessary bureaucracy and taxation.
JEFF SHAW We have to stop this hate-mongering bureaucracy that we currently have.
GENE COLLINS The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
EUGENE MCCARTHY The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
EUGENE J. MCCARTHY Religion to me is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.
BILL MAHER State universities in Illinois are a microcosm of our state government - broken with work rules and ...
BRUCE RAUNER Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
JAIME LERNER Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
HONORE DE BALZAC I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.
RUSH LIMBAUGH The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the fe...
MARK KENNEDY Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area. And bureaucracy needs to stand tria...
AARON BROUSSARD Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
JOSEPH A. SCHUMPETER The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge....
KARL MARX I've been a government contractor for years, so I'm used to bureaucracy, but this is just ridiculous...
BARBARA POTTER The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.
BUTROS BUTROS-GHALI The PCAOB is an unaccountable, unconstitutional regulatory body. It's the poster child for the dange...
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JOE WILCOX Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find your...
LAURENCE GONZALES Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especia...
FRANK HERBERT In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent ...
CHAIM POTOK If the first person who answers the phone cannot answer your question it's a bureaucracy. If the fi...
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MICHAEL SWANWICK The privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense...
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BRUCE RAUNER Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
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JERRY SALTZ Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entre...
JERRY SALTZ It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if we didn't have a salary cap.
JERRY JONES Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of ker...
JERRY LEIBER I'm a fan of very, very expensive creams: Creme de la Mer, La Prairie Skin Caviar Luxe. I'm ...
JERRY HALL My greatest moment as a jock occurred when I was 14 and playing punch ball in front of my house on A...
JERRY REINSDORF The support this city and our fans have shown the Grizzlies made my decision to stay in Memphis an e...
JERRY WEST Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined th...
JERRY SALTZ From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was ...
JERRY LEWIS You need lofty goals. Then cement it with a great work ethic.
JERRY WEST All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making ...
JERRY SPRINGER The idea of getting old is horrific, but I don't want to make it worse by becoming a grotesque c...
JERRY HALL I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' th...
JERRY LEWIS It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.
JERRY SPRINGER If Chief Justice Warren and his associates had known God's word and had desired to do the Lord&#...
JERRY FALWELL I'm really looking forward to the Hall of Fame ceremonies. It's going to be unbelievable - j...
JERRY RICE The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch ...
JERRY ONLY Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cra...
JERRY SEINFELD