Bureaucrats Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There's a long history of presidents coming in, saying they're gonna to take on the bureaucracy. What they really mean is they're gonna try to shift the emphasis of where those bureaucrats are gonna work and how they're gonna spend their time towards achieving objectives that presidents want to achieve.

  Brian Balogh

  Mean, Long, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

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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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• We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.

  Michael O'Leary

  People, Needs, Becoming

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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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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• Hillary Clinton would rather protect bureaucrats than serve American children, and that's what she's doing and that's what she's done.

  Donald Trump

  Children, Done, Clinton

  Source: time.com

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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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• Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Views, Progress

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• I offer a better way for America with ideas that actually work, a reformed tax code that rewards free enterprise instead of just enterprising lobbyists. A reformed health care system that operates by free choice instead of by force and doesn't leave you answering to cold, clueless bureaucrats. A commitment to a renewed commitment to building a 21st Century military and giving our veterans the care that they were promised and the care that they earned.

  Paul Ryan

  Military, Clueless, Commitment

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Operations, Consumers

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• When government 'creates jobs' by taking money from the private sector and 'investing' in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity. Rather, the government has preempted the economic process, forbidding it to serve consumers so that it can instead serve the objectives of politicians and bureaucrats.

  Sheldon Richman

  Jobs, Government, Investing

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• Do we really want the people who created $40 trillion of unfunded liabilities in Social Security and Medicare in charge of our health care? Faceless bureaucrats, power-lusting politicians, and people spending other people's money are a recipe for disaster.

  Ed Crane

  People, Lust, Want

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