Bureaucrat Quotes

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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights. — H. L. Mencken
Our leaders must remember that education doesn't begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn't even begin with state or local officials. Education begins… — Ronald Reagan
Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples of… — Tom L. Johnson
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. — Brooks Atkinson
We have so many priests who have gone half way â€¦ itâ€™s sad that they did not manage to go the whole way; they have… — Pope Francis
It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the… — Eduardo Galeano
I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the… — Eugene H. Peterson
There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with… — Neal Boortz
The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an… — H. L. Mencken
The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files… — Theodore Zeldin
A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit. — Evan Esar
Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no. — Morton Blackwell
Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator — Ludwig von Mises
Under this law (Controlled Substances Act) a bureaucrat-usually not elected-decides whether or not a substance is dangerous and how dangerous that substance is. There's no… — Peter McWilliams
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 say let me… — Ted Cruz
If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences. — Ayn Rand
Whoever sides with the revolutionary people is a revolutionary. Whoever sides with imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism is a counter-revolutionary. Whomever sides with the revolutionary people… — Mao Zedong
Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat. — Michelle Malkin
For small community banks and credit unions, like those in Central and Northern Wisconsin, the hundreds of new rules will require an estimated 2,260,631 labor… — Sean Duffy

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