We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants. — Michael O'Leary 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
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
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
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. Follow-up is the answer to a bureaucrat's prayers. — Susan Dunlap 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 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
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
Last night, John McCain said that under the Democratic health care plan, a bureaucrat would stand between you and your doctor, as… — Jay Leno 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 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
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
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
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
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
“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 Copy Share Image
“They read a little bit, write a little, and especially agree with themselves on important moves, important information, important awards, important writers… — Dejan Stojanovic 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
Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good. — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do. — Elinor Ostrom Copy Share Image
In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“...the "allies" of today would be the bureaucrats of tomorrow ...” — Albert Meltzer Copy Share Image
Bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., shouldn't know how to better educate my kids than I do. — Matthew Whitaker Copy Share Image
The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence. — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats needs to end. — Brandon Webb Copy Share Image
“But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.” — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican… — Alben W. Barkley Copy Share Image
“We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.” — Kenzaburō Ōe Copy Share Image