Bureaucrats Quotes - Page 6

• I draw a contrast between American shared governance with "the dictatorship of ministries" wherein policy and direction for the university is ordered by bureaucrats who have never taught a class.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Class, Taught, Ministry

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What the hell is social justice? What sort of fool can imagine income equality as dictated by bureaucrats and government thugs? I dare anyone to attempt to explain those drug-inspired fantasies in meaningful terms.

  Ted Nugent

  Meaningful, Thug, Government

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.

  Michelle Malkin

  Vigor, American Strength

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• Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.

  Bob Riley

  Agency, Government, People

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• A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Ideas, Paper, Cleaning

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• In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Bulls, Bucks, Seven

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• Bureaucrats live on the fat of the land, while the rest of us stay skinny laboring to pay their salaries.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Land, Salary, Pay

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• If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.

  John Gresham Machen

  Education, Children, Giving

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• I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.

  Yulia Tymoshenko

  Thinking, Old Habits, Remember

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• I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.

  Alexander Lebedev

  Senior, Limits

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• I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.

  Chet Huntley

  Believe, Government, Self

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• The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted - or rather tend to be corrupted - by the conditions of capitalism and betray a tendency to become bureaucrats, i.e., privileged persons divorced from the people and standing above the people.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Organization, People, Political

  "The State and Revolution". Book by Vladimir Lenin. Chapter 6, www.marxists.org. 1917.

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• Under the antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. If he complies with one of these laws, he faces criminal prosecution under several others. For instance, if he charges prices which some bureaucrats judge as too high, he can be prosecuted for monopoly or for a successful 'intent to monopolize'; if he charges prices lower than those of his competitors, he can be prosecuted for 'unfair competition' or 'restraint of trade'; and if he charges the same prices as his competitors, he can be prosecuted for 'collusion' or 'conspiracy.'

  Ayn Rand

  Successful, Men, Law

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.46, Penguin

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• If entrepreneurs were running schools, instead of bureaucrats, schools would be teaching a lot more of the skills and mindsets found in this book. Since they're not, this book is a necessary antidote to a traditional college education.

  Scott Banister

  Running, Teaching, Book

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• The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats.

  Bertrand Russell

  Drawing, Differences, Long

  "Sceptical Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell. Chapter 12: "Free Thought and Official Propaganda", 1928.

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• We still have systems we don't need, we have infrastructure we don't need. Why do you have over 900,000 bureaucrats working in one way or another in all these systems.

  John Kasich

  Needs, Way, Infrastructure

  "John Kasich Tells TIME: The Republican Party Is My Vehicle, Not My Master". Interview with Zeke J Miller, Deer Valley, time.com. June 18, 2015.

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• Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands. Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, War, Hands

  "Brecht on Brecht: An Improvisation". Book by George Tabori, 1967.

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• At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Math, Winning, Cities

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2008). “Pump Six and Other Stories”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.

  Katy Lederer

  People, Bankers, Serious

  "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Capitalist". Interview with Benjamin Samuel, www.gelfmagazine.com. January 19, 2009.

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• The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war machine is a cent not spent on reversing the social policies that have destroyed the cities, nourished racism, and laid the groundwork for crack culture.

  Ellen Willis

  War, Kids, Jail

  Ellen Willis (2012). “No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays”, p.250, U of Minnesota Press

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• The people want government that works for them at every level. They want good government that begins at their doorstep in the barangay, and does not end before the closed door of a bureaucrat in Metro Manila.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Government, Doors, People

  State of the Nation Address, July 25, 2005.

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• In a free society, the “vision thing” is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a “visionary” bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government [...] the poorer and less free the people.

  Ilana Mercer

  Government, People, Vision

  "His Rhetoric, Our Reality". original.antiwar.com. January 26, 2005.

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• That the Texas Legislature, that the Texas school boards, the Texas teachers, we collectively know best how to educate our children, rather than some bureaucrat in Washington.

  Rick Perry

  Education, Teacher, Children

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• By the time the Deputy Minister presents a matter for decision to cabinet, he or she tends to present three options: ' the unacceptable', 'the politically courageous', and 'the bureaucrat-preferred' options. As such, it is usually best to get down into the department to the person doing the first drafts of any policy.

  Don Johnston

  Decision, Three, Matter

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• Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the tyranny of arrogant clergy and the censorship of pious bureaucrats. They boldly proclaimed that the state must be free from religious coercion and that religion must be free from state control. All individuals have the right to pursue the dictates of their own conscience. All citizens even have the right not to be religious at all.

  Sherwin Wine

  Religious, Children, Years

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