Bureaucrats Quote by Murray Rothbard

Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job.

— James Cook

Most everything government does is worse than useless.

— James Cook

Government spending either is completely wasteful, merely transfers income, purchases an intermediate rather than a final good, or purchases valuable final services whose value…

— Robert Higgs

“if your government isn’t wasteful, you’re spending too much time fighting government waste.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

There is no reason why government should not be as efficient as any good business.

— Philip Green

News flash: The federal government is not the most efficient institution in the world. Taxpayers know that.

— Jon Ossoff

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

— Charley Reese

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

— Milton Friedman

All government is an ugly necessity.

— Anonymous

Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive.

— Kakha Bendukidze

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

— Eugene McCarthy