#bureaucrat

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

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I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#bureaucrats #city #city government #complicated #condition

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#despise #managers #most #thing #trained

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

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An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do. ↗

— Elinor Ostrom

#citizens #correct #information #resources #sometimes

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments. ↗

— Tom Peters

#bureaucratic #companies #environments #excellent #exciting

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#bureaucratic #capital #degrees #different #effort

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients. ↗

— Alan Keyes

#bureaucracy #bureaucrats #clients #derive #inherently

Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world's greatest care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor. ↗

— Chris Christie

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