#bureau

Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#any #bureaucracy #concentrating #contemplates #creation

Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress. ↗

— Fred Upton

#allies #approach #bureaucracy #busy #congress

Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship. ↗

— Fred Upton

#bill #bureaucrats #care #change #decide

CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world. ↗

— Jim Walton

#around #bureaus #cnn #still #world

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

We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing. ↗

— John Sununu

#bad #bad thing #bureaucracies #bureaucrats #led

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

The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it. ↗

— Harold Ford

#big #big proponent #bureaucracies #bureaucracy #enthusiastic

Uniformity in the common law, consisting of broad principles like the "reasonable person" standard, generally permits adjustment for the circumstances. This type of uniform principle is almost synonymous with fairness. Uniform application of a detailed rule, on the other hand, will almost always favor one group over another. p. 34 ↗

— Philip K. Howard

#common-law #fairness #government #law #politics