Agendas Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

Once a bureau is created, its staff becomes a tenacious political interest group, well placed to defend its budget and to make a case…

— Robert Higgs

Bureaucrats serve their own interests first.

— Tom Fitton

In the first place, bureaucracies never become efficient; they're never going to get rid of administrative costs; they're never going to reduce them. That's…

— Rush Limbaugh

Bureaucracies tend to perpetuate themselves, whether they are multinational corporations or large government institutions such as Medicare, often at the expense of those that…

— Dean Ornish

Bureaucrats want you to think that the system is too complex because they want you to be stupid about it and uninterested in it.…

— Dana Loesch

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are…

— Richard Holbrooke

Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.

— Joel Miller

Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.

— Nancy Pelosi

I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.

— Carly Fiorina

If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in the…

— Calvin Coolidge

Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.

— Alice Rivlin

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

— John Sununu