A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
官僚主义
Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
官僚主义是俾格米人操纵的巨大机制。
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
唯一能把我们从官僚主义中拯救出来的就是它的低效率。
What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy.
革命之后不可避免地会出现官僚主义。无论谁赢得了这场革命,都会建立起一个官僚机构。
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
你永远不会理解官僚主义,除非你明白,对官僚来说,程序就是一切,结果什么都不是。
We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.
我们将削减项目,我们将努力控制官僚机构的规模。我们将使被过分夸大的联邦工资标准与市场利率保持一致。
Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.
国会、媒体和官僚机构往往过于关注花了多少钱或精力,而不是这些钱或精力是否真的达到了宣布的目标。
Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.
在这个国家做事,如果你想做点什么,如果你想开一家公司,有那么多的官僚作风和批准,这几乎是不可能的。