Bureaucrats Quotes - Page 2

• Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

  Ron Paul

  Marriage, Engineering, Judging

  "To Protect Marriage" by Ron Paul, www.lewrockwell.com. July 22, 2004.

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• Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

  Hugh Sidey

  Mean, People, World

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• One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

  Robert Menzies

  Years, Young, One Thing

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• Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

  Joel Miller

  Government, Groups, Use

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• I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Men, Intellectual, Ink

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• When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.

  John le Carre

  Ignorance, Experts, World

  John le Carre (2004). “The Russia House: A Novel”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

  Gore Vidal

  Doe, Rebellious, Bureaucracy

  1968 Sex, Death and Money, preface. See Frost 338:84.

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• Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator

  Ludwig von Mises

  Innovators

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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• The bureaucrat fell from the sky.

  Michael Swanwick

  Sky

  "Michael Swanwick: Twenty Questions From Lynne Jamneck". Interview with Lynne Jamneck, strangehorizons.com. November 17, 2003.

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• One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Bureaucracy, Endure, Nations

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• In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

  Milton Friedman

  Hell Hath No Fury, Age, Needs

  Milton Friedman, William Richard Allen (1983). “Bright promises, dismal performance: an economist's protest”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

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• You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

  Ric Keller

  Horse, Thinking, Water

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• A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Dog, Stupid, Boys

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• The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Way, Violence, Stealth

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• Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.

  Elinor Ostrom

  Citizens, Information, Sometimes

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• The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

  Pope Francis

  Government, People, Acting

  "A Big Heart Open to God: An interview with Pope Francis". Interview with Antonio Spadaro, S.J., www.americamagazine.org. September 30, 2013.

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• What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Today, Socialism, Type

  "Chaos Is Good for You". Interview with Linda Geddes, www.slate.com. December 2, 2012.

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• We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.

  Newt Gingrich

  Proud, Welfare, Politician

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• Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.

  Barack Obama

  Doctors, Reform, Plans

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• A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.

  Newt Gingrich

  Funny, Volleyball, Beach

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• Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats.

  Rick Perry

  Views, Individual

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• I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.

  Curt Weldon

  Worry, Information, Reason

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• Reagan thought that school prayer was important because it was crucial to begin each day reminding students that their inalienable rights came to them from their Creator and not from government bureaucrats.

  Paul Kengor

  Prayer, School, Rights

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.

  John Sununu

  Senior, Jobs, Motivation

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• To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

  Ai Weiwei

  Badass, Bad Ass, Criticism

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