In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything. — Charles E. McKenzie 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
Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions. — Barbara Boxer 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
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
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
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
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
Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and… — Bob Riley Copy Share Image
Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and… — Matt Salmon Copy Share Image
What we have now is democracy without citizens. No one is on the public's side. All the buyers are on the corporations'… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The proposal is frequently made that the government ought to assume the risks that are "too great for private industry." This means… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Iowans are feeling the pinch of a big federal government, and elected officials like Bruce Braley keep championing the over reaching bureaucracy.… — Joni Ernst 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
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
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
Under the antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. If… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary,… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Have you or haven't you built a good school? Haven't you improved living conditions? Aren't you a bureaucrat? Have you helped to… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
“In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government documents that revealed things. If there were, they were concealed… — William J. Clinton 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
“We are turning into a nation of rigid, mindless, rule-driven bureaucrats, incapable or unwilling to exercise any degree of common sense or… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Unelected bureaucrats at the IRS have a history of weaponizing their power to go after conservatives. — Ronny Jackson Copy Share Image
“Bureaucrats complicate. It gives them more work to do. It gives them job security. It means promotions as ever more bureaucrats are… — Sieg Pedde 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
I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now… — Chet Huntley Copy Share Image
My own view is that the Internet should be run by technologists and engineers and business people, not by lawyers and bureaucrats… — Ajit Pai 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
I oppose federal bureaucrats compelling Americans to drive electric vehicles whether they want to or not. — John E. James Copy Share Image
Why do politicians and bureaucrats get salaries and perks from the pockets of the poor and do nothing for them? So I… — Naveen Patnaik Copy Share Image
When I'm president of the United States, we're going to have a VA that cares more about our veterans than about the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan,… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
