Bureaucratic Growth Quotes

To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.

Well, Rush, look what happened? 9/11 happened, and we didn't know it in advance. That's right, we got hit, we got hit big time. We need a new agency to make sure it doesn't happen again, Rush." And that was the excuse for starting Department of Homeland Security. The government grows and grows and grows and grows, and what do we get? Little old ladies wanded, scanned for bombs and weapons under their skirts next to the incontinence diapers. A bunch safer.

The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.

By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish.

Every election, a presidential candidate inevitably proposes a new cabinet agency. The idea is that this is the only way to solve a particular problem. Just create more government.

In a corporate state, all attempts to reduce bureaucracy increase it.

As government grows, freedom recedes.

The increasing complexity of the Executive Branch is mirrored by the size of the cabinet.

Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.

The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

When a private entity does not produce the desired results, it is (certain body parts excepted) done away with. But a public entity gets bigger.

It is the tendency of Government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we'll see on this earth.

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than leave free the energies of mankind.

One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

By early 1943, the Pentagon was complete-a building big enough to house forty thousand people and all their accoutrements, the largest building in the world, conceived, funded, designed and constructed in a little more than a year. And on the day it was finished, it was already too small.

When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees. As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law.

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's too much of it, the flower becomes a weed.

If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one of the simple constitutional provisions, we shall soon be spending many billions of dollars more.

Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress.