Bureaucrats Quote by Morton Blackwell Download Open image “Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no.” — Morton Blackwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bureaucrats Chance Giving Inspirational Love Luck
A bureaucrat is one who has the power to say "no" but none to say "yes." — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“But just imagine how hard you would be to watch if you had a whole office building jammed to the rafters with industrial bureaucrats—men… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom. — Alexander Lebedev Copy Share Image
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense — Morton Blackwell Copy Share Image
Keep your eye on the main chance and don't stop to kick every barking dog. — Morton Blackwell Copy Share Image
Politics is of the heart as well as of the mind. Many people don't care how much you know until they know how much… — Morton Blackwell Copy Share Image
A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough. — Morton Blackwell Copy Share Image
Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is… — Ron Paul 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
People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they are angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and… — Mark Levin 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 of its… — Helen Prejean 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 the like. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else. — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
The nearest thing to immortality in this world is a government bureau. — Hugh S. Johnson Copy Share Image
The people want government that works for them at every level. They want good government that begins at their doorstep in the barangay, and… — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Copy Share Image
One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive. — Gerald R. Ford 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 doctor-as-bureaucrat, the… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image