In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Bureaucrats have no business strong-arming private citizens over their property rights. — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else. — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
Obamacare is bureaucrats getting between you and your doctor, and that's what Americans most dislike about this legislation. — Jim Jordan Copy Share Image
We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants. — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
Hollywood was invented by hoodlums from central Europe. And today a Hollywood lawyer is not a hoodlum. He's a bureaucrat. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“In the dramas people shied from Shuos assassins and saboteurs, but the ones you had to watch out for were the bureaucrats.” — Yoon Ha Lee Copy Share Image
I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
...[I]f we care about our remaining liberties we must at some point draw a line in the sand and let politicians and… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on… — Veerappa Moily Copy Share Image
No Child Left Behind taught us that parents, teachers and state and local leaders are more suited to address students' needs than… — John Kline Copy Share Image
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Bureaucrats denounce private enterprise for the consequences of their own reckless policies and demand still more governmental controls. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
When government 'creates jobs' by taking money from the private sector and 'investing' in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity.… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If we had a flat tax code rather than a 70,000-page document full of cronyism and favors, bureaucrats and elected officials wouldn't… — Dan Bongino Copy Share Image
Bean-counting government bureaucrats are free to take race, ethnicity and gender into account when doling out public funds to non-white-male contractors. But… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When your money is taken by a thief, you get nothing in return. When your money is taken through taxes to support… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Unelected bureaucrats should not have the ability to direct settlement funds to progressive organizations under the guise of 'donations,' especially when these… — Tommy Tuberville Copy Share Image
Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The world is filled with toxic bureaucrats that blatantly ignore the laws.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything. — Charles E. McKenzie Copy Share Image
Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions. — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats. — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Bureaucrats in D.C. seem to forget that every dollar they spend is the result of somebody else's labor. — Brian Mast Copy Share Image
A bureaucrat is one who has the power to say "no" but none to say "yes." — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth? — Curt Weldon Copy Share Image
Unelected bureaucrats at the IRS have a history of weaponizing their power to go after conservatives. — Ronny Jackson Copy Share Image
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing. — John Sununu Copy Share Image
The clear, unmistakable sign of a bureaucrat is somebody who worries about whether he has a window. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially… — Robert Townsend Copy Share Image