#bureau

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think. ↗

— Ric Keller

#him #lead #make #think #water

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#bureaucrat #does #like #poem #something

For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road. ↗

— Lee Child

#bogged #bureaucracy #commitments #down #everything

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#democrat #holds #office #republican #some

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#architecture #bureaucrats #complicated #criticism #functions

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck. ↗

— Jack Welch

#bureaucracy #reputation #stiff #stuck #you

I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#attempt #brought #bureaucrats #classification #classified

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#before #bureaucratic #company #everything #exciting

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#citizens #city #face #mayor #provides

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#birth #bureaucratic #condition #die #diet