Bureaucrats Quotes

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

— Eugene McCarthy

The bureaucrat fell from the sky.

— Michael Swanwick

The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats.

— William Easterly

Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.

— John Cleese

“Act on people's request before request turn into intimidation.”

— Amit Kalantri

The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.

— Ray Davies

Bureaucrats don't create jobs, businesses create jobs.

— John E. James

Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no.

— Morton Blackwell

“For once in his life, Norman has acted rather than gone to a meeting. And this is where it has landed him.”

— Paul Torday

Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator

— Ludwig von Mises

“...a million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it...”

— Thomas Pynchon

In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

— Milton Friedman

Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.

— James M. Buchanan

Bureaucrats have no business strong-arming private citizens over their property rights.

— Anna Paulina Luna

All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.

— Murray Rothbard

Obamacare is bureaucrats getting between you and your doctor, and that's what Americans most dislike about this legislation.

— Jim Jordan

The only way government bureaucrats know of keeping prosperity going is to inflate some more - to increase the deficit or to…

— Henry Hazlitt

The supporters now, the bureaucrats of science, do not wish to take any risks. So in order to get it supported, they…

— Sydney Brenner

I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away.

— Josh Mandel

“Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, especially when it comes to bureaucrats in a government who has no clueabout money matters”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Corrupt bureaucrats and cops ought to dismissed or compulsorily retired from service, as they are a drain on the service. Their performance…

— Kiran Bedi

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

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

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

The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable…

— William Henry Chamberlin

The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

“Perhaps it sounds awfully simplistic, but I have often thought how much better off our country would be if sometimes we left…

— Mike Ramsdell

People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they are angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government…

— Ronald Reagan

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

When each of us is free to work out his own economic destiny, within the framework of the market economy, the institution…

— Henry Hazlitt

There's a long history of presidents coming in, saying they're gonna to take on the bureaucracy. What they really mean is they're…

— Brian Balogh

“Everything passes through the eyes of top bureaucrats who closely watch to ensure that no intruder can enter their ranks and disrupt…

— Dejan Stojanovic

Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and…

— Mao Zedong

Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not…

— Ron Paul

I think, unfortunately, many opinion leaders in Germany - including government officials, politicians, social service bureaucrats and so forth - they are…

— Karl Lauterbach

“By exiling human judgment in the last few decades, modern law changed role from useful tool to brainless tyrant. This legal regime…

— Philip K. Howard

“Washingtonians are a bunch of cultured, egotistical, lumpen-elitist snobs who live in their own dream world completely divorced from the rest of…

— Bryan Taylor

“Mr. Constant," he said, "right now you’re as easy for the Bureau of Internal Revenue to watch as a man on a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be:…

— Terry Tempest Williams

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

— Kurt Vonnegut