Activity Quote by Robert Higgs

Bureaucrats want bigger bureaus. Special interests are interested in whatever's special to them. These two groups bring great pressure to bear upon politicians who…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

One of the greatest struggles of bureaucracies is they get built and created, but they design themselves in such a way that they can…

— Josh Barnett

The agency is who it is because of many, many, many chapters that needed to happen.

— David Droga

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

— John Sununu

Bureaucrats serve their own interests first.

— Tom Fitton

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to…

— Brooks Atkinson

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

— Joel Miller

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

We've very steadily and single-mindedly been building the bureau so that we can do the work that, quote, Congress required us to do and…

— Richard Cordray

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

— Carly Fiorina

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

— Robert Conquest