Quotes on Bureaucracy
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by the aid of it.
Will Rogers
This is the source.
You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
In America we created at the local level and administered at the local level for many years the greatest public school system in the world. Now through something called federal aid to education, we have something called federal interference, and education has been the loser. Quality has declined as federal intervention has increased.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
John Kenneth Galbraith
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
Barnett Cocks
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Eugene McCarthy
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Hell, there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas Alva Edison
No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline.
Calvin Coolidge
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