In any bureaucracy, paperwork increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and less you are doing.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

"Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.

Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper.

His chief hate was Washington bureaucracy; second to that, liberals; then cops.

It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape.

I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.

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

Although I can accept talking scarecrows, lions, and great wizards of emerald cities, I find it hard to believe there is no paperwork involved when your house lands on a witch.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.