Buck Passing Quotes

The perfect bureaucrat … is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.

I find it very frustrating how much passing the buck there is in the criminal justice system when it comes to taking responsibility for outcomes.

When the public or the Council pass the buck up to me I am going to act.

We will remember UPA 2, if at all, it seems, as that period when things went mysteriously wrong - for the bribe-taking, buck-passing, foot-dragging, and general sense of paralysis.

We live in such a corporate world where everyone is passing the buck, it seems to me. Therefore I like stories where the individual takes responsibility for BEING the individual, and not just for himself, but for his comrades, his society and ultimately for his country. Ultimately, we can all learn a lesson from that and not be browbeaten by the corporate world which is taking over.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

It is not your great father who does this; but the laws of the country, which he and every one of his people is bound to regard.

To pay the price of federal mandates, local governments must cut the services that they are in the business of providing ... To Congress we say, if you're going to pass the bill, don't pass us the buck.

It is easy to scoff at the prestigious commissions that constantly sprout in Washington as empty exercises in buck passing—until you take stock of all they have accomplished.

This is buck passing without the bucks.

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.