Bureaucrats Quotes

I couldn`t come up with a name. I love our street. I looked at my husband and said `Hot Date.` And that`s what she sent in to the bureaucrats.

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.

Through invention, through imagination, through fabrication, I become more truthful than the little bureaucrats.

Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.

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.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.

(These) 529 plans really are pieces of (expletive) ... that are good in maybe 1 percent of situations, ... Hand my money over to bureaucrats? No thank you!

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

(The intrinsic attraction of flat tax has been most pithily expressed by none other than Clint Eastwood.) All of a sudden, what do you have? ... You have the whole tax system run by a little old lady on a home computer, doing the work of all these thousands of bureaucrats and accountants.

I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990.

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.

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

To many, the word coercion implies arbitrary decisions of distant and irresponsible bureaucrats; but this is not a necessary part of its meaning.

I`m against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it`s not just government bureaucrats. I don`t like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that`s what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

(Many politicians see no problem with that. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, argues that it is better for members to earmark money for their districts than to leave spending to the) bureaucrats. ... I hope not... . Pork barrel is in the eye of the beholder.

The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned Things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statistician, psychologist, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. the psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

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.