Bureaucrats Quote by Alben W. Barkley

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

— Harry S Truman

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

— Russell L. Ackoff

A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.

— Evan Esar

Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down ...

— George McGovern

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats…

— Ambrose Bierce

The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.

— Tom Shadyac

It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.

— Thomas Jefferson

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed…

— Alan Keyes

Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause…

— Ezra Pound

When you work for the C.I.A. or as a diplomat, or serve in the military, you're not serving as a Democrat or a Republican;…

— Valerie Plame

Being described as a stupid bureaucrat with no link to representative democracy is difficult to take.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

We're all as bureaucrats, or people who are - who work for state, every year we present our declaration of our incomes and expenditures…

— Dmitry Peskov