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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Louis XIV was very frank and sincere when he said: I am the State. The modern statist is modest. He says: I am the servant of the State; but, he implies, the State is God. You could revolt against a Bourbon king, and the French did it. This was, of course, a struggle of man against man. But you cannot revolt against the god State and against his humble handy man, the bureaucrat.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Kings, Struggle, Humble

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• ...[I]f we care about our remaining liberties we must at some point draw a line in the sand and let politicians and bureaucrats know we will not tolerate further encroachment on our God-given rights to liberty.

  Walter E. Williams

  Rights, Liberty, Care

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• If I were afraid of polls, I never would've been elected in two landslide elections, leading a highest percentage in our state's last election for governor. If I were afraid of polls, we wouldn't have privatized our charity hospital system, we wouldn't cut our state budget 26%, wouldn't have cut over 30,000 state government bureaucrats, wouldn't have done statewide school choice. Here's the real record.

  Bobby Jindal

  Real, School, Cutting

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. June 28, 2015.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Under Article II, all executive power is vested in one president of the United States. The regulatory state is Congress's efforts to undermine the president's authority. And my hope is we will see a president use that constitutional authority to rein in the uncontrollable, unelected bureaucrats and to rescind regulations.

  Ted Cruz

  Effort, President, Use

  Source: time.com

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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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