Bureau Quote by Hugh S. Johnson

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal…

— Ronald Reagan

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

— James F. Byrnes

“I told you there was no such thing as immortality, not even for dragons.”

— Stanley S. Thornton

“Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“...love was the closest thing to immortality that men would ever know and that the only--and best--answer to death is loving. Loving.”

— Dean Koontz

“The nice thing about immortality is that you have plenty of time to figure out how to get rid of it.”

— T. Kingfisher

America isn't Wollman Rink, but I think almost everybody watching, and certainly the people who voted for him, have had frustrating experiences with bureaucrats…

— Paul Solman

Bureaucrats live on the fat of the land, while the rest of us stay skinny laboring to pay their salaries.

— Charles E. McKenzie

I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real:…

— Margaret Atwood

We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

— John Sununu

In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is…

— Leon Trotsky

In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.

— Charles E. McKenzie