Eugene McCarthy Quotes

The bureaucracy is what we all suffer from..

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

It's that government bureaucracies crush innovation. We are falling further and further behind in our government.

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.

Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody.

Big bureaucracies in business and government—they fail too.

Getting the U. S. Government to do anything is like herding ducks with a broom.

The major functions of the government are … operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.

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

The CIA is a stilted bureaucracy incapable of even the slightest bit of success.

I've seen the government up close and personal, and for the most part, it's inefficient and hidebound, and it stifles creativity in any industry it clutches within its well-meaning but slimy tentacles.

It takes our government an awful lot of time to do most things competently, and that's part of the problem here.

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be made manifest by the full complement of documents, files, veneered desks and cabinets - which convey the strict and inverse relationship between productivity and paperwork.

Administrators are another curious consequence of a bureaucracy which has forgotten its reason for being

Delay has the odor of the Beltway.

Should bureaucratic ways prevail and paper reign supreme? Should red tape and the Status Quo become our nation’s dream?

It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.

It is easier to waste time on bureaucratic reorganization than it is to accomplish anything concrete.

People complain about bureaucracy. You haven't seen bureaucracy until you've seen bureaucracy in China.

Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving—how not to do it. No public business of any kind could possibly be done at any time without the acquiescence of the Circumlocution Office. Its finger was in the largest public pie, and in the smallest public tart.

It is a huge bureaucracy. It is so inept. But it does function.

To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.