If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.

Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.

The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues.

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

The onset of one religion can be resisted only by another.