Below you will find a set of quotations randomly selected from the GMI database. Each set is based around a common theme, as in GAMSAT. To practise for Section 2, give yourself five minutes thinking time and then allow 30 minutes writing time for an essay based on the quotations. For some feedback, you may wish to consider posting your completed essay in the PagingDr Essay Practice and Critique thread. To get another set, simply reload the page. If you would like to suggest a quotation for the database, submit a comment below.

1: The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Eugene McCarthy (1916 – ), Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979

2: Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
Charles Peters

3: Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Milton Friedman (1912 – )

4: The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Brooks Atkinson (1894 – 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951

5: Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 – 1988)

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