You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy. Ronald Wilson Reagan

• freedom
• government
• bureaucracy
• taxes

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

• education
• government
• bureaucracy

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector. Ronald Wilson Reagan

• government
• bureaucracy

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

• government
• bureaucracy

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. Barnett Cocks

• bureaucracy

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

• bureaucracy

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

• politics
• bureaucracy

Hell, there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something. Thomas Alva Edison

• actions
• rules
• accomplishment
• bureaucracy

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

• government
• bureaucracy

Programs that are labeled as being for the poor, for the needy, almost always have effects exactly the opposite of those which their well intentioned sponsors intend them to have. Milton Friedman

• government
• bureaucracy
• welfare

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline - a problem that largely goes away if you have the right people in the first place. Most companies build their bureaucratic rules to manage the small percentage of wrong people on the bus, which in turn drives away the right people on the bus, which then increases the percentage of wrong people on the bus, which increases the need for more bureaucracy to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline, which then further drives the right people away, and so forth. Jim Collins

• bureaucracy

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Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress. James Boren

• bureaucracy

The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity—and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand. Richard Feynman

• government
• bureaucracy
• socialism

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Never forget that there are thousands of businesses, like Jim's Fish Bait Shop in a shack on a beach somewhere, that are doing just fine without corporate formalities. As your business grows, never let the leeches sucker you into all that stuff they pretend you need. They'll play on your fears, saying that you need this stuff to protect yourself against lawsuits. They'll scare you with horrible worst-case scenarios. But those are just sales tactics. You don't need any of it. Derek Sivers

• business
• bureaucracy

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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. Laurence Peter

• bureaucracy