Best Bureaucracy Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“When I set out to make my movie 'Problemista,' among the biggest things I wanted to explore was the relentless maze of American bureaucracy, particularly in the U.S. immigration system.”

“We need to redirect dollars from bureaucracy.”

“In a large bureaucracy, it is vital to keep eyes on the grassroots as they almost always will give you warning of problems faster than official signals (which says a lot about official signals).”

“After four tours of duty as a Navy SEAL officer, I came home from Iraq and watched the VA - the second-biggest bureaucracy in the country - fail my friends. The VA was broken and my friends were suffering. And yet, time and again, the only 'solution' I heard from liberals was to spend more money. It made me angry.”

“When we're worried about a bureaucracy and keeping the bureaucracy going, you're always going to make mistakes.”

“Stand-up is no bureaucracy. No one can tell me what to do or not to do.”

“The LAPD, like most police departments, is a male-dominated bureaucracy. A woman faces a lot of pushback.”

“I'm very interested in just bureaucracy and broken systems.”

“We need to tackle the bureaucracy that's holding our education system back.”

“To me, every decision needn't be a 'big-bang' reform but a signal of proactive decision-making and removal of red tape and bureaucracy.”

“For me, governing starts with people. It doesn't start with bureaucracy. It doesn't start with policy. It starts with people and what people need to thrive.”

“We won't accomplish our goals by creating a new federal bureaucracy or by bribing states with their own taxpayers' money.”

“I am the candidate who defends the superiority of politics over the administration, the bureaucracy, the economy, and so I think it is politics which must decide.”

“We should empower teachers to do their job by cutting wasteful spending and crippling bureaucracy, not classroom resources our educators and students need.”

“After the reunification, there was a certain sense of foreignness because daily life in the former East German states was completely turned inside out - everything from the shops to the bureaucracy to the working world.”

“Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.”

“This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.”

“In a large bureaucracy, you cannot exercise the transformation of any situation without coopting bureaucracy.”

“Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide.”

“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.”

“We will not let bureaucracy stand in the way of governing.”

“When people have their own money at stake, it's a lot easier to find and settle on practical, no-nonsense solutions to engineering problems than is ever the case in the complex and endless deliberations of a government bureaucracy.”

“Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.”

“The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.”

“I don't want a lot of bureaucracy... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious.”

“Nobody in the Washington regulatory bureaucracy gets fired for saying no.”

“I think it is a very important point for India to create a bureaucracy that lives on the ground and gets its stimulus from how life is on the ground.”

“To me, the most powerful people in this country, politically, are mayors. If you took all the mayors of the 25 biggest cities and you got them together, you could do more on that level than you ever could through the bureaucracy in Washington.”

“We impugn the private sector, we impugn main street America, and the bureaucracy cannot be held to any different standard whatsoever.”

“The FBI and our entire government has become a bureaucracy. Sick, tired, and old as far as technology is concerned. This has to change.”

“We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy.”

“I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.”

“I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.”

“I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.”

“We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.”

“Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.”

“The bureaucracy always goes with the way politicians go.”

“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.”

“I'm not a fan of the NCAA. I don't think they make decisions for the kids. They make decisions for bureaucracy and for their structure.”

“To serve taxpayers better - and at a lower cost for the long haul - Congress should clean up the Washington bureaucracy itself.”

“We must, we must cut the EPA's legs off. I hate to say that, because it sounds rotten, but they are choking this country to death with legislating through the bureaucracy in Washington.”

“Publicly, we're saying we're better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse, since the high-level people are scared of being held responsible for 9/11.”

“Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and to untangle a complicated regulatory environment.”

“NASA, like every government organization, has some bureaucracy, which can become slimmer.”

“One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively pervading but well camouflaged bureaucracy.”

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

“I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.”

“The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.”

“Many Americans simply don't want the pinheads in Washington or the various state capitals to be telling us how to live. But we are absolutely going in that direction. President Obama is hell-bent on imposing a bureaucracy that levels all playing fields at great expense in coin and in freedom.”

“Bureaucracy and red tape should not delay our efforts to bring help to those in need.”

“For an American, as mad you may be about whatever the EPA or the IRS does, just imagine if you only had a one twenty-eighth vote over what it does. You were in this place with this big bureaucracy that sets rules, and you only have a small vote. You'd feel like you've given up your sovereignty, wouldn't you?”

“My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.”

“When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.”

“Under a democratic form of government, the people elect legislators and ministers to fulfil their policies. The role of the ministers is to give directions. The role of the bureaucracy is to implement those directions. If those who have to do the implementation are on strike, no policies can actually be implemented.”

“I understand that bureaucracy, hierarchy and managing politics is not easy.”

“It is difficult to conduct flood mitigation at the federal level because of the bureaucracy and inconsistent funding. Texans are better able to lead this effort at the state level rather than rely on the federal government.”

“I believe in lower taxes. I believe in more efficient government. I believe in reducing bureaucracy. I believe that we shouldn't have lobbyists who can go in or former government workers who can come back and lobby.”

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

“We have to make bureaucracy sexy.”

“The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.”

“Fight hierarchy and bureaucracy as hard as you possibly can. Don't ever let it become the master; always remember it's the servant.”

“We will not let government bureaucracy stand in the way of helping small businesses.”

“Our own bureaucracy should not and cannot get in the way of our efforts to get people sheltered.”

“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.”

“No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy.”

“An Italy that collects lower taxes, that has well-defined times for the court proceedings, and that has less bureaucracy is good news that reassures the markets.”

“When you get big, there's a tendency to get caught up in process and bureaucracy.”

“The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world.”

“There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.”

“Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.”

“We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.”

“When people are dying, bureaucracy should be thrown out of the water.”

“Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.”

“We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.”

“I trust the individual over the bureaucracy.”

“The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you're stupid. You don't think, 'If this kid's not a good fit, it could be the system's fault.'”

“Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.”

“Just remember: if ever you feel weighed down by the bureaucracy and often mundanity of modern life, don't fight the frustration. Let it be the catalyst for whimsy.”

“The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.”

“Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.”

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

“Despite repeated calls for reform from nations like the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan, the court has become an ineffective, unaccountable and politically motivated bureaucracy. There are serious concerns about corruption and misconduct at the highest levels of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor.”

“I want diversity to be at the very heart of the BBC and not delivered by some other party with increased government interference, bureaucracy and unforeseen consequences.”

“I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but without the expensive E.U. bureaucracy.”

“I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more productive, and trying to keep the bureaucracy from getting in their way.”

“German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.”

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

“We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.”

“That massiveness of bureaucracy at the VA is chronic and has been chronic.”

“The United Nations must focus on delivery rather than process and on people rather than bureaucracy.”

“Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.”

“Zamanism is about creating power and private resources for all in society by destroying bureaucratic and monopolistic control on society.”

“A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that I be forgiven for anything I may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness.  Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which I may be eligible after the destruction of my body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen.”