Bureaucracy Quotes

“A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.”

“The government's solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.”

“When in doubt, mumble.”

“The most dangerous thing in the world is a bureaucrat with a mission.”

“Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized'.”

“A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.”

“A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.”

“You know, you don't have to have a policy for everything.”

“It is necessary to distinguish the interests of the nation from the interests of the bureaucracy.”

“If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.”

“What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.”

“A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.”

“A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.”

“If I am forced to choose between the ephemeral whim of a bureaucrat and the plain language of the law, I will choose the law.”

“The secretariat building in New York has 38 stories. If you lost ten stories, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.”

“When in charge, ponder.”

“When in trouble, delegate.”

“Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.”

“A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.”

“A bureaucrat's castle is his desk...and parking place. Proceed cautiously.”