Quotes about Bureaucracy

The power of citizens in a society is determined by their ranking in games that have been played. A society preserves its memory of past winners. Its record-keeping functions are crucial to societal order. Large bureaucracies grow out of the need to verify the numerous entitlements of the citizens of that society.

I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Just be glad you're not getting all the government you're paying for

Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.

Washington is a place where good ideas go to die.