#bureau

Just as in policing there is an emphasis on civilians to help with paperwork, we must free up trained and experienced social workers to focus on children, not bureaucracy. ↗

— Andy Sawford

#children #civilians #emphasis #experienced #focus

The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#corners #cup #dubious #employs #find

For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week. ↗

— John Sununu

#anticipation #bureaucrats #bury #dropped #dump

Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job. ↗

— John Sununu

#because #behave #bureaucrats #different #differently

Publicly, we're saying we're better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse, since the high-level people are scared of being held responsible for 9/11. ↗

— David Hunt

#better #bureaucracy #fighting #gotten #held

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#die #disease #inflicts #routine #usually

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity. ↗

— Robert Heller

#between #bureaucrats #choice #difference #exclusively

Last month, the House of Representatives passed the Veterans Opportunity to Work Act, which would provide training and assistance to unemployed veterans, and break down bureaucratic barriers preventing them from finding work. It's smart legislation that members of both parties support, and I'm pleased the Senate passed it. ↗

— Joe Heck

#assistance #barriers #both #break #bureaucratic

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#bureaucracy #evaporates #every #leaves #new

A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that I be forgiven for anything I may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness.  Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which I may be eligible after the destruction of my body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#agnosticism #bureaucracy #funny #humor #mythology