Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
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.
Being a bureaucrat means never having to say you're sorry.
Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.
There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.
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.
It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.
Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.
Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.
