"[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time……" — Newt Gingrich

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• Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of… — Barbara Tuchman
• The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist… — Leon Trotsky
• Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry… — Paulo Freire
• Conservatives have every reason to believe the death penalty system is no different from any politicized, costly, inefficient, bureaucratic, government-run… — Richard Viguerie
• Bureaucratic solutions to problems of practice will always fail because effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and… — Linda Darling-Hammond
• Dan Brister's book bears witness to the last fifteen years of this bureaucratic madness to tame the last vestige of… — Doug Peacock
• Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance… — Michael J. Gelb
• Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard… — Unknown Author
• It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian… — Rick Perlstein
• Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to… — John Derbyshire
• The danger is that the compromises and special interests inherent in Kyoto-style targets and cap-and-trade will be accepted because of… — James Hansen
• The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a… — Paul Laxalt

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