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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

Topics: Bureaucratic Bureaucrats City Complicated Condition Experienced Government Joined Level Local Management Only Operate Practical Russian Start Team Were Who Whole

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Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.

~Anna Maria Chavez

Topics: Adapting Agree Bureaucratic Capable Corporate Counterparts Environment Fluid Less Nimble Often Our Rigid Than Too Viewed

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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

~Barbara Tuchman

Topics: Bureaucratic Demands Discipline Easy Enough Form Habit Idiotic Obey Orders Plain Reasonable

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From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

~Barry Eisler

Topics: Big Bureaucratic Cia Exotic Inside Office Outside Place Post Post Office Pretty Seems Spies Think

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For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event.

~Barton Gellman

Topics: About Behave Bureaucratic Chaos Event Far Far Less Governments How Initial Less Levels Political Prepare Public Reasons Telling Than

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I think institutions that are bureaucratic often try to squeeze from the top down, and they don't have good results on the ground level.

~Bill Pullman

Topics: Bureaucratic Down Good Ground Institutions Level Often Results Squeeze Think Top Try I Think

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Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.

~Bobby Jindal

Topics: Bureaucratic Communities Efforts Finding Individuals Rebuild Red Red Tape Slow Tape Tendency Unfortunately Working

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We need to address the systemic structural issues within the VA - the misallocation of resources, the interminably long waiting lists, the bureaucratic inefficiencies - to ensure that our American heroes are properly protected the second they return home from war.

~Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers

Topics: Address American Bureaucratic Ensure Heroes Home Issues Lists Long Need Our Properly Protected Resources Return Second Structural Va Waiting War Within

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Americans are willing to cheer on politicians who denounce bureaucratic overreach and job-killing red tape in abstract terms. But they turn out to like specific regulations against toxic chemicals in their drinking water.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: Abstract Against American Bureaucratic Cheer Chemicals Drinking Drinking Water Like Out Politicians Red Red Tape Regulations Specific Tape Terms Toxic Turn Water Who Willing

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The Defense Department is prone to all of the 'traditional bureaucratic rules,' which is the same thing you'll find in most traditional government systems.

~Chris Fussell

Topics: Bureaucratic Defense Department Find Government Most Prone Rules Same Same Thing Systems Thing Traditional Which You

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