A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer (Dean Acheson, politician)
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. (Thomas Jefferson, US President)
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. (Dr. L.J. Peter, Canadian educator)
(Source: The Chambers Book of Business Quotations)