Government Bureaucracy Quotes - Page 2

• If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

  Samuel J. Palmisano

  Impact, Differences, People

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• I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

  Gary Bauer

  Government, Decision, Care

  Republican Presidential Candidates Forum, usatoday30.usatoday.com. October 29, 1999.

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• 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.

  Walter Bagehot

  Art, Thinking, Government

  Walter Bagehot (1867). “The English Constitution”, p.237

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• Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.

  Fred Upton

  Mirrors, Yesterday, Allies

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• Un gobierno que roba a Pedro para pagar a Pablo siempre puede contar con el apoyo de Pablo.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirador, divertido, ingenioso

  La política de todos ¿Qué es qué? cap. 30 (1944)

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• I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

  Francesca Annis

  Religious, Hate, Desire

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• Odio la burocracia y la idea de que no soy una persona libre.

  Paloma Faith

  Hate, Ideas, Bureaucracy

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• La burocracia de la ONU ha crecido hasta alcanzar proporciones elefantiásicas. Ahora que la Guerra Fría ha terminado, le pedimos a ese elefante que haga gimnasia.

  Madeleine Albright

  War, Gymnastics, Elephants

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• Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Goal, Focus, Effort

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). "Declaraciones públicas de Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretario de Defensa, 2001".

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• When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.

  Michael Gove

  Teacher, Government, Discipline

  "Why should any teacher ever vote Tory?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2010.

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• We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.

  John Redwood

  Europe, Democracy, Needs

  "Why the EU debate still matters" by John Redwood, www.brugesgroup.com.

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• 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.

  Chris Chocola

  Agency, Government, Years

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• We need to do a top/bottom review of the federal government and for every agency administration bureaucracy that is not called for in the United States Constitution, we have to really ask the question what is its purpose, how many people work there, how much does it cost the taxpayers and what is the value to our society.

  Josh Mandel

  Agencia, Gobierno, Personas

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• Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

  Michele Bachmann

  Light, Government, President

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• Trapped in the bureaucracy nightmare, real families suffer when the big banks and their servicers force foreclosures. The emotional toll on children packing up their rooms and on parents struggling to find a temporary roof is a deep one.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Children, Real, Struggle

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• Generalmente se envían equipos temporales de personas de confianza a todos los Departamentos y a los principales organismos de la Administración para ayudar en la planificación y familiarizar a la Administración entrante con los funcionarios y la burocracia que permanecerán en la nueva Administración.

  Richard V. Allen

  Team, Agency, Government

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• Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.

  Mark Kennedy

  Dollars, Classroom, Should

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• Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.

  John Mica

  Country, Airports, Israel

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• I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Bigs, Bureaucracy

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• Nos estamos deshaciendo de la burocracia, de modo que estamos liberando tiempo para que los agentes de policía se dediquen a combatir el crimen y no a redactar formularios.

  Theresa May

  Police, Fighter, Crime

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• La burocracia es como un hongo que lo contamina todo.

  Jaime Lerner

  Fungi, Bureaucracy

  "Revolución silenciosa". Entrevista con Tom Phillips, www.theguardian.com. 26 de marzo de 2008.

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

  Bill Maher

  Funny, Atheist, Men

  "Is There A God?" by Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. October 9, 2002.

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• Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.

  Jesse Helms

  People, Support, Schemes

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• Cada revolución se evapora y sólo deja tras de sí el limo de una nueva burocracia.

  Franz Kafka

  Cynical, Revolution, Slime

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• Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Rebellious, Proposal

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.85, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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