Keyword: Bureaucracy (Page 2)

Only a bureaucracy can fight a bureaucracy.

Of all possible committee reactions to any given agenda item, the reaction that will occur is the one which will liberate the greatest amount of hot air.

If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented, it wasn't worth doing.

In a bureaucracy, good ideas go to too far.

The organization of any bureaucracy is very much like a septic tank. The really big chunks always rise to the top.

Government organization

Bad regulation begets worse regulation.

In a bureaucracy, accomplishment is inversely proportional to the volume of paper used.

If anything can go wrong, it will do so in triplicate.

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.

(1932 – 2009) U.S. senator (Massachusetts)

Bureaucracy is based on a willingness to either pass the buck or spend it.