Administrative Process Quotes

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

There’s a mayor and a council and judges—a hundred men to deal with … and you can’t do business with a lot of officials, who check and cross one another and who come and go …. A business man wants to do business with one man.

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

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

Policy making is not as easy as slurping down cabbage soup.

Bureaucracy and red tape should not delay our efforts to bring help to those in need.

When school officials want to get a teacher out of the classroom, they have to go through an arduous and multi-year process involving hearings and appeals and lawyers and more hearings. All the while, the teacher draws full pay.

Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.

In city hall and in local government, you have to get things done without drama.

The administrative process is, in essence, our generation’s answer to the inadequacy of the judicial and legislative processes. It represents our efforts to find an answer to those inadequacies by some other method than merely increasing executive power.

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

In any given day, our administration has about 2 million employees, and things happen. We put in process procedures to make sure if there has been any wrongdoing, there will be appropriate consequences, and we will move on.

I went to government for making these changes. I remember a number of guys among these important figures.

This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.

They work for bureaucracies and they become bureaucratized themselves.

After this interview, I'm going to immigration to try to sort out my Green Card, just like any other normal person.

You can't just, boopity-boop, saunter into the Treasury. You need an appointment.

States are great engines moving slowly.

When you're going to pass legislation that will cover 300 [million] American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.

Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.

Presidents may go to the seashore or to the mountains. Cabinet officers may go about the country explaining how fortunate the country is in having such an administration, but the machinery at Washington continues to operate under the army of faithful non-commissioned officers, and the great mass of governmental business is uninterrupted.

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

You have to make sure that [grants] reach people by virtue of their Identity Documents.