The only way government bureaucrats know of keeping prosperity going is to inflate some more - to increase the deficit or to… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The supporters now, the bureaucrats of science, do not wish to take any risks. So in order to get it supported, they… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you… — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
If the Congress is going to spend its whole time hauling up regulators and bureaucrats and looking like they're focusing on tiny,… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
Bureaucrats want bigger bureaus. Special interests are interested in whatever's special to them. These two groups bring great pressure to bear upon… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the… — Elinor Ostrom Copy Share Image
I don't believe that bureaucrats in Washington should tell someone whether they can use contraceptives or not. And I don't believe employers… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Whoever sides with the revolutionary people is a revolutionary. Whoever sides with imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism is a counter-revolutionary. Whomever sides with… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We use our tax dollars to pay some bureaucrat to kill a mountain lion, dig a hole and bury this precious beast.… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted -- or rather tend to be corrupted -- by the conditions… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
We have so many priests who have gone half way … it’s sad that they did not manage to go the whole… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When bureaucrats talk about increasing our 'access' to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the… — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. ...… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Fifty-five years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenager, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn't put his arm around him and… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am interested in power, too, but power for you, the people, not power for bureaucrats and politicians and officeholders and all… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. — John Berger Copy Share Image
People won't want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain. Our aim should be… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit.… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“Bureaucracies can be—and usually are—appallingly inefficient, but efficient bureaucrats can—and usually do—find ways to circumvent the regulations.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such… — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
“Bureaucrats and politicians, rather than making decisions, were responding to cues with automatic routines in order to get rewards such as promotions… — charles duhigg Copy Share Image
The people want government that works for them at every level. They want good government that begins at their doorstep in the… — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Copy Share Image
“They think that successful diplomacy requires years of experience and an understanding of all the nuances that have to be carefully considered… — Donald J. Trump Copy Share Image
As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Out-of-control bureaucrats have put politics over common-sense policy with government mandates that force people to choose between earning a paycheck and violating… — Jim Bob Duggar Copy Share Image
Think about that. Two hundred and eighty-five new or expanded programs, $2 trillion more in new spending, and not one new bureaucrat… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective… — Alexander Zinoviev Copy Share Image
The money we spend on education should follow the choice of the parents, not the choice of educrats, bureaucrats, politicians, who, unfortunately,… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
“The problem is that organizations are famous for taking people who are happy as individual contributors and turning them into managers or… — Valerie Young Copy Share Image
From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At… — Gautam Adani Copy Share Image
Even if her children or grandchildren are willing to spend their own money to keep grandma alive, when bureaucrats control the necessary… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence is so lucid were afraid of it today. It scares the hell out of every modern bureaucrat, because… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life,… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Do we really want the people who created $40 trillion of unfunded liabilities in Social Security and Medicare in charge of our… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
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