You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state
The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace.
My mom is a bureaucrat officer.
In our administration, we're going to follow the law, and any policy that we move forward will fall well within the law and the Arizona Constitution.
Anything my staff does in my office is pursuant to congressional rules.
In a large bureaucracy, you cannot exercise the transformation of any situation without coopting bureaucracy.
I have made it a policy not to draft documents that will be reviewed by a public body.
Thomas Jefferson thought that Franklin should write the first draft of the Declaration of Independence:
It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
I don't write policy for my government.
I have a wealth of experience, not only as a senior executive in different departments in the city, but I've also, in my private practice life, helped small businesses, middle-market businesses really try to navigate the sometimes difficult world of city government.
When the president and the prime minister decide to implement reforms, they have all the measures they need to pass them and enforce them.
I don't really understand how to do bureaucratic things - school-system things.
The Inspector General issued six reviews and reports on actions taken based on provisions of the act. In those six reports, the IG found that not one violation of an individual's civil liberties - a total of zero - had taken place since the act was instituted.
In boxing, as with other government-regulated activity, the integrity of public records should be preserved.
I have not flouted any rules on transfers or posting.
Here is the truth: While at the University of Florida, and now at The Ohio State University, I have always followed proper reporting protocols and procedures when I have learned of an incident involving a student-athlete, coach or member of our staff by elevating the issues to the proper channels.
The Statist has constructed a Rube Goldberg array of laws and policies that have institutionalized his objectives. His success breeds confidence in the limitlessness of his endeavors.
Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
UN is made even more complex by the constant interplay of politics and bureaucracy and can certainly be bewildering for a novice.
Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.
A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward.
In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various levels of Government, in work practices and procedures.
The clear, unmistakable sign of a bureaucrat is somebody who worries about whether he has a window.