Ronald Reagan Quotes About Bureaucracy

• No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Libertarian, Size

  Television broadcast, 27 Oct. 1964

• No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Political, Voting

  Television broadcast, 27 Oct. 1964

• You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Guy, Voting

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

• Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Self, Competition

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.62, Humanix Books

• Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Democracy, Breaking Down

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

• Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wisdom, Independent, Leader

• We are for aiding our allies by sharing of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we're against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We're helping 107. We've spent 146 billion dollars. With that money, we bought a 2 million dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya[n] government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Money, Blessing

  Ronald Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" Speech, www.reaganlibrary.gov. October 27, 1964.

• Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.

  Ronald Reagan

  Nests, Bureaucracy, Adept

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