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Bureaucracy

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office a Republican wants. – Alben W. Barkley

In the US we find the label requirements are crazy. It is almost as if we had to label a bookcase with the warning do not eat this bookcase — it can be harmful to your health. – Bjorn Bayley

Poor fellow, he suffers from files. – Aneurin Bevan

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true. – William Blake

Those who can, do, those who cant teach; and those who can do neither, administer. – Calvin Calverley

If the copying machines that came along later had been here during the war, Im not sure the allies would have won. Wed all have drowned in paper. – Alan Dickey

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the worlds total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses. – Barbara Ehrenreich

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. – Robert Frost

The inventor of the Xerox machine will, I am sure, find a special place reserved for him on one of the inner circles of Dantes Inferno. – Nicholas Goodison

Endless meetings, sloppy communications and red tape steal the entrepreneurs time. – James L. Hayes

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. – Aldous Huxley

A bureaucrat is a person who cuts red tape sideways. – J. Mccabe

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. – Eugene McCarthy

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. – Mary McCarthy

The longer the title, the less important the job. – George McGovern

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine. – John Stuart Mill

So many signatures for such a small heart. – Mother Theresa

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one. – H. Ross Perot

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. – Laurence J. Peter