Bureaucrats Quotes - Page 6

I froze, shocked. (And don't try to clam that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)

Brandon Sanderson

Gun, Government, Trying

Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.37, Macmillan

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Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

Helen Prejean

Government, Citizens, Death Penalty

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Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

Ron Paul

School, Government, Parent

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Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats.

Evgeny Morozov

Government, Doors, Age

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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Wall, Artist, Vaccines

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Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor cars, airplanes, radio sets, refrigerators, moving and talking pictures, and variety of less spectacular but no less useful innovations. These new products were certainly not an achievement of offices and bureaucrats.

Ludwig von Mises

Moving, Airplane, Talking

Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

John Berger

Power, Envy, Illusion

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People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin to take you more seriously, as they suddenly feel you have become more important

Rajeev Shukla

Change, People, Important

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I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government documents that revealed things. If there were, they were concealed from me too. And if there were, well I wouldn't be the first American president that underlings have lied to, or that career bureaucrats have waited out. But there may be some career person sitting around somewhere, hiding these dark secrets, even from elected presidents. But if so, they successfully eluded me...and I'm almost embarrassed to tell you I did (chuckling) try to find out.

William J. Clinton

Dark, Government, Careers

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Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is that there will come a time when we will have to buy a government permit just to emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from our own lungs!

Ron Paul

Government, Air, Atmosphere

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To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

Henry Spencer

Design, Politics, Committees

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We have so many priests who have gone half way … it’s sad that they did not manage to go the whole way; they have something of the employee in them, something of the bureaucrat in them and this is not good for the Church. Please be careful you don’t fall into this! You are becoming pastors in the image of Jesus, the good pastor. Your aim is to resemble him and act on behalf of him amidst his flock, letting his sheep graze.

Pope Francis

Jesus, Fall, Sheep

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The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

L. Neil Smith

Military, War, Drug

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There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right.

Elinor Ostrom

Believe, People, Incentives

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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

Ai Weiwei

Badass, Bad Ass, Criticism

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The happiness of being envied is glamour.
Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.

John Berger

Envy, Reassurance, Illusion

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I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

Charles Schumer

Decision, Care, Insurance Companies

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On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.

Mitt Romney

Government, Decision, President

"Mitt Romney's Florida Victory Speech". www.realclearpolitics.com. January 31, 2012.

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How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?

Vladimir Putin

Russia, Trying, Sake

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Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats.

Rick Perry

Views, Individual

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Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.

Barack Obama

Doctors, Reform, Plans

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When bureaucrats talk about increasing our 'access' to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to 'increase' Internet 'access.'

Michelle Malkin

Government, Talking, Internet Access

"Internet Access Is Not a 'Civil Right'" by Michelle Malkin, www.newsbusters.org. December 22, 2010.

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The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.

Rush Limbaugh

Powerful, Government, Self

Keynote Address to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 28 February 2009, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.

Newt Gingrich

Funny, Volleyball, Beach

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We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.

Newt Gingrich

Proud, Welfare, Politician

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