Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no.

It saddens me when public officials and bureaucrats are criticized for ulterior motives, none of which I have ever found in a government bureaucrat,…

— Michael K. Powell

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

— Gore Vidal

“But just imagine how hard you would be to watch if you had a whole office building jammed to the rafters with industrial bureaucrats—men…

— Kurt Vonnegut

A bureaucrat is one who has the power to say "no" but none to say "yes."

— Russell L. Ackoff

“bureaucrat said. “Come back with a search warrant”

— John Sandford

A BUSINESSMAN cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, He suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the…

— Ayn Rand

The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of…

— H. L. Mencken

“And what does an anthropologist do these days?" sad Paul. "Same thing a supernumerary minister does--becomes a public charge, a bore, or possibly a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Industrialists have begun to realise that they would probably be better at influencing policy themselves, rather than depend on some political stooge or corrupt…

— Sucheta Dalal

I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.

— John Barrasso

“He was a bureaucrat, not a hitman, and most of the time that's what supervillainy looks like in real life.”

— Ben Dyer

It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the…

— Bob Ney

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

— Ric Keller

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

— Brooks Atkinson

I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.

— Michael Korda