Bureaucracies Quotes

I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels.

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.