Administrative System Quotes

Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

No man in his senses can suppose that this country can for a century to come be governed by totally unfrenchified government ...

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy.

The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.

… an earthworm boring beneath the roots of local self-government by cities and States, burrowing silently yet with incalculable power, loosening the soil, sagging foundations…. He is devoid of any moral nature … a machine himself—hard, impulses, cunning, cute but witless, immovable, inexorable, grinding.

I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.

However many people complain about the "red tape," it would be sheer illusion to think ... continuous administrative work can be carried out in any field except by means of officials working in offices.... The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dillettantism.

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.

If certain facilities, local facilities have to be arranged, the local authorities have to come. And that makes the Indian system slow moving, Indian administrative system slow moving.

Team Work is the essence of good governance. It is necessary to form a team within the party and also within the administrative system.

ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.

My journey started in the courthouse and went to the statehouse.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.