Bureaucrats Quotes - Page 7

• There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

  Bill Gates

  Magic, Lines, Should

  "The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But The Truth". Interview with John Heilemann, www.wired.com. November 1, 2000.

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• The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

  Milton Friedman

  Running, Government, Self

  "The Phil Donahue Show", www.youtube.com. 1979.

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• The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

  Pope Francis

  Government, People, Acting

  "A Big Heart Open to God: An interview with Pope Francis". Interview with Antonio Spadaro, S.J., www.americamagazine.org. September 30, 2013.

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• Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

  Barbara Boxer

  Decision, Care, Medical

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• Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

  Thomas Sowell

  Heart, Mean, Hands

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• What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Today, Socialism, Type

  "Chaos Is Good for You". Interview with Linda Geddes, www.slate.com. December 2, 2012.

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• A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

  Harry S. Truman

  Humorous, Office, Political

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• A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.

  Evan Esar

  Fit, Bureaucracy, Officials

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• Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.

  John Sununu

  Senior, Jobs, Motivation

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• It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be: educators, activists, biologists, geologists, writers, farmers, ranchers, and bureaucrats - and admit we are lovers, engaged in an erotics of place. Loving the land. Honoring its mysteries. Acknowledging, embracing the spirit of place - there is nothing more legitimate and there is nothing more true. That is why we are here. That is why we do what we do. There is nothing intellectual about it. We love the land. It is a primal affair.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Land, Intellectual, Farmers And Ranchers

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “An Unspoken Hunger”, p.77, Vintage

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• We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

  John Sununu

  Might, Too Much, Bureaucracy

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• The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.

  David Simon

  Games, Feet, Leader

  "The escalating breakdown of urban society across the US" by David Simon, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

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• For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.

  John Sununu

  Friday, Monday, Weekend

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• Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.

  Michel Foucault

  Writing, Who I Am, Order

  Michel Foucault, Jeremy Carrette (2013). “Religion and Culture”, p.13, Routledge

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• Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no.

  Morton Blackwell

  Giving, Chance

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• In sorting out my feelings and beliefs, there is, however, one piece of moral ground of which I am absolutely certain: if I were to be murdered I would not want my murderer executed. I would not want my death avenged. Especially by government--which 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, Feelings, Sorting Out

  Helen Prejean (2011). “Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States”, p.21, Vintage

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• How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  Light, Twenties, Century

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• The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

  Mark Twain

  Laughter, Political, United States

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.58, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Iowans are feeling the pinch of a big federal government, and elected officials like Bruce Braley keep championing the over reaching bureaucracy. Iowans know what is best for Iowa more than Washington politicians and bureaucrats do.

  Joni Ernst

  Government, Iowa, Feelings

  Source: hotair.com

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• It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Giving, Important

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• The proposal is frequently made that the government ought to assume the risks that are "too great for private industry." This means that bureaucrats should be permitted to take risks with the tax payer's money that no one is willing to take with his own.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Mean, Government, Risk

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.41, Crown Business

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• Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Communism, Communist, Ifs

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• Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.

  Jim Harrison

  Government, Years, People

  Jim Harrison (2016). “Legends of the Fall”, p.109, Atlantic Books

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• The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.

  Sarah Palin

  Baby, Love Is, Obamacare

  "Will the Real Death Panel Please Step Forward?" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2015.

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• Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Offering

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.153, Penguin

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