Bureaucrats Quotes

• The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Cairo, Lessons, Way

  "he Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance". Book by Laurie Garrett, 1995.

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• I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.

  Nicholas II of Russia

  Russia, Clerks, Bureaucracy

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

  Thomas Sowell

  Libertarian, Outcomes, Procedures

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• There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.

  Alan Greenspan

  Integrity, Arbitrary, Guarantees

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.112, Penguin

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• Remember, most of the bureaucrats voted for Hillary Clinton. Most of the bureaucrats deeply dislike what Trump is trying to accomplish, and most of the bureaucrats think they can't be fired, so they can outlast you.

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, Trying, Remember

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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.

  Alan Keyes

  People, Clients, Structure

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• The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind. What reward did they receive from our culture and its intellectuals? The position of a hated, persecuted minority. The position of a scapegoat for the evils of the bureaucrats.

  Ayn Rand

  Business, Class, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.74, Penguin

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• I am interested in power, too, but power for you, the people, not power for bureaucrats and politicians and officeholders and all the like.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Politician

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

  Honore de Balzac

  Liberty, Giants, Libertarian

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• It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again... Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats.

  Lee Iacocca

  Pain, Believe, White

  "Lee Iacocca On Chrysler's Bankruptcy" by Julie Halpert, www.newsweek.com. April 29, 2009.

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• Have you or haven't you built a good school? Haven't you improved living conditions? Aren't you a bureaucrat? Have you helped to make our labor more effective, our life more cultured? Such will be the criteria with which millions of voters will approach candidates, casting away those who are unfit, striking them off lists, advancing better ones, nominating them for elections.

  Joseph Stalin

  School, Voters, Casting

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• For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, World, Mere

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Collected works”

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• Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Sarcastic, Time, Sarcasm

  1978 In the San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan.

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• Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?

  Frank Herbert

  Hate, Thought Provoking, Innovation

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.201, Penguin

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• Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

  Dale Dauten

  Government, Giving, Stubborn

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• Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Management, Despise

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• Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

  Milton Friedman

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Rights

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

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• In our time ... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in ancient times. But those gods you must understand were far more imaginative than our tiny bureaucrats. They spoke from mountaintops not from tiny airless offices. They rode clouds. They were possessed of passion. They had voices and names. Six thousand years of civilization have brought us to this.

  Chaim Potok

  Passion, Winning, Men

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• The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Responsibility, Men, Perfect

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

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• The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Civilization, Needs, Libertarian

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

  Richard M. Nixon

  Change, Chaos, Bureaucracy

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

  Dennis Prager

  Tyrants, Done, Dictator

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Liberty, Bureaucracy, Threat

  Eugene J. McCarthy (2004). “Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life”, p.109, Fulcrum Publishing

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• 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.

  Gary Bauer

  Government, Decision, Care

  Republican Presidential Candidates Forum, usatoday30.usatoday.com. October 29, 1999.

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• Whoever sides with the revolutionary people is a revolutionary. Whoever sides with imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism is a counter-revolutionary. Whomever sides with the revolutionary people in words only but acts otherwise is a revolutionary in speech. Whoever sides with the revolutionary people in deed as well as in word is a revolutionary in the full sense.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Class, People

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