Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Today, the law is a crazy quilt of provisions and clauses that very often have little to do with securing general happiness… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
We still have systems we don't need, we have infrastructure we don't need. Why do you have over 900,000 bureaucrats working in… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat.… — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
Putin was very careful to gradually sort of rotate people in and out of power, to make sure that he had competent… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what… — David Simon Copy Share Image
There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Leaders is the new organisation do not lack motivational tools, but the tools are different from those of traditional corporate bureaucrats. The… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
I offer a better way for America with ideas that actually work, a reformed tax code that rewards free enterprise instead of… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
In a free society, the “vision thing” is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had;… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
The first reform must be the attitude. The ministers of the Gospel must be people who can warm the hearts of the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Some champions of ever-greater governmental power and spending invent the theory that the taxpayers, left to themselves, spend the money they have… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
For 47 years, the U.K. has been forced to follow rules set by Brussels bureaucrats, many of whom have never set a… — Alok Sharma Copy Share Image
The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
“Between 1890 and 1911 there was a 200 percent increase in the numbers of bureaucrats, most of them new appointments. In Austria… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“Custine described them as ‘automata inconvenienced with a soul’: a description true, perhaps, of all bureaucrats fearful for their jobs but truest… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction… — Harold Bloom 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
On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for… — Bertrand Russell 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
I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only… — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
“The bureaucrats had gotten into a habit of solving every medical problem by building something so that a congressman could say, ‘Here’s… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
It's not just other countries in Europe having a say over what we do. It's unelected bureaucrats in Brussels on sort of… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
That the Texas Legislature, that the Texas school boards, the Texas teachers, we collectively know best how to educate our children, rather… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I draw a contrast between American shared governance with "the dictatorship of ministries" wherein policy and direction for the university is ordered… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity. — Robert Heller Copy Share Image
Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
We're not going to let some unelected bureaucrats in Washington stop us from moving forward with our agenda, but at the end… — Steve Scalise Copy Share Image
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our… — Michel Foucault 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
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