Bureaucracy
A bureaucracy is a group of specifically non-elected officials within a government or other institution that implements the rules, laws, ideas, and functions of their institution In other words, a government administrative unit that carries out the decisions of the legislature or democratically-elected representation of a state.
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Famous quotes containing the word bureaucracy:
“The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.”
—Eugene J. McCarthy (b. 1916)
“If you’re going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won’t.”
—Hyman G. Rickover (1900–1986)
“Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)