28 Movie Quotes about Bureaucracy (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Jun 5, 2025

Memorable quotes about bureaucracy, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

21 Nice balloons. -Do you have a licence to sell these balloons? -Licence?

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in A Shot in the Dark (1964)

22 Look, Frank, listen, this can happen to anybody in government service. That's why they have staff psychiatrists. First thing Monday...

McLean Stevenson as Norman Link in The Cat from Outer Space (1978)

23 Paragraph 32 in my contract clearly states that the party of the first whereas into abrogation of professional entities does hereby exclude and nullify tangent reclamations as referred to in paragraph 20, 21 even.

Daws Butler as Snagglepuss in Snagglepuss (1961)

24 Fools. Bureaucratic fools. -What'd they say?

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark

25 I've got a touch of hangover, bureaucrat. Don't push me.

John Wayne as George Washington McLintock in McLintock! (1963)

26 See, we did a little job for the city a while back and we got stiffed on the bill by some bureaucratic bookworm like yourself.

Bill Murray as Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters II

27 Well, there's our bureaucrat.

Kevin Costner as Robert Butch Haynes in A Perfect World

28 They're one of the most unpleasant races in the galaxy. Not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious, and callous.

Simon Jones as Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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