Valerie Plame

My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, there was sometimes stifling bureaucracy, boredom, colleagues who never should have been there, and later, deeply disturbing stories of the CIA's involvement in torture. Still, I got to do work I thought was incredibly important and, many times, had fun doing it.

American Writer

Ahmed Zewail

Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels.

Egyptian Scientist

Ali Wong

I'm addicted to picking my nose. In a world of red tape and bureaucracy, where it takes forever to buy a house or get a cell-phone plan going, it's so instant to just stick your finger up there and go for something your own body produces.

American Actress

Jaime Harrison

With a common-sense approach, we can reduce waste, fraud and abuse, cut back on unnecessary bureaucracy and provide for the pillars of a strong economy and life in our state.

American Politician

Jesse Helms

Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.

Daniel Tammet

Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.

English Writer

Alastair Wood

I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more productive, and trying to keep the bureaucracy from getting in their way.

Arthur Capper

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

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy.

Filipino Statesman

Carly Fiorina

I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.

American Businesswoman

Indicates a cumbersome and complex process often seen as unnecessary.

Complexity

Often used to express frustration with procedural delays.

Negative Connotation

Implies a lack of personal touch or consideration for individual situations.

Impersonality

Refers to the influential role of non-elected officials in shaping policies.

Officials' Power

Portrayed as a faceless entity making decisions.

Abstract Entity

Decision-making can feel indirect and frustratingly remote.

Lack of Directness

Widely criticized for being inefficient and slow due to its structure.

Criticism for Inefficiency

 There is no other question. Nobody has any other question. We have variations of this one question, from three onwards. So when you spend time in a company, in a bureaucracy, in an organization and you're saying, boy -- how many people do you know who on their death beds said, boy, I wish I had spent more time at the office?

Ricardo Semler: Radical...

 demonstrate complex can we relax the bureaucracy and increase the speed and this is infuriating because we solve this problem in our personal lives at home were used to technology acting like a coach and helping us who in this room hasn't used a mapping application to coach you on how to go anywhere new the

Upgrading management...

 but actually making it such. Governments will never gravitate towards crimes of this magnitude naturally or eagerly. As we saw, they haven't even gravitated towards protecting our ports or reigning in loose nukes. Why would we expect in a bureaucracy that it would orient itself towards distant suffering?

Samantha Power: Shaking...

 to the plains of Hungary a country that had been more fairytale than truth until now and after a six-week battle on the border with bureaucracy we got a cross and to be welcomed by these people was a wonderful experience for these people my journey had special significance because their ancestors the

Tim Cope: On the Trail...

 but due to corrupt bureaucracy, barely any of these funds reached survivors or their families. Neither Trujillo nor anyone in his government was ever punished for this crime against humanity. The legacy of the massacre remains a source of tension between the two countries.

Ugly history: The 1937...

 And have I mentioned that I have not visited a state office for almost seven years? Indeed, one of the features of the modern life that has no reason to exist anymore, considering technological possibilities of today, is the labyrinth of bureaucracy.

What a digital...

 and we thought our troubles were over we had filmed him and we had caught him but we reckoned without one thing unfortunately in the end bureaucracy defeated us and we weren't given a permit to export those dragons from indonesia so i'm afraid

Zoo Quest For A Dragon...

 It's not the absurdity of bureaucracy alone, but the irony of the character's circular reasoning in reaction to it that is emblematic of Kafka's writing. His tragicomic stories act as a form of mythology for the modern industrial age,

What makes something...

 this takes more money and none of this demands a bureaucracy but it does demand that you think things differently and you are prepared to bend budgets and work programs in order to create that supportive framework that compute

How we can eat our...

 Without kings, without bureaucracies, without standing armies, these early farming populations fostered the development of mathematical knowledge, advanced metallurgy. They learned to cultivate olives, vines and date palms.

Bureaucracy