Bureaucrats Quotes
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Police are bureaucrats with weapons.
— David Graeber
The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.
— Ray Davies
When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are 'procedures in place.'
— Michel Faber
Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.
— Elinor Ostrom
As a friend often said, India is a gymkhana club, where the people have the votes, but the politicians and the bureaucrats have the membership.
— Tarun J. Tejpal
Politicians and bureaucrats must learn to stay away from the day-by-day functioning of business.
— Adi Godrej
It was wise to put bureaucrats in windowless offices.
— Helen Phillips
A million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it ...
— Thomas Pynchon
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
The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats.
— William Easterly
Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
— Barbara Boxer
Monsters are entirely mythological, sir, like spirits, werebeasts, and competent bureaucrats.
— George R R Martin
One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.
— Robert Menzies
If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.
— John Gresham Machen
To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.
— Henry Spencer
How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?
— Curt Weldon
Bureaucrats denounce private enterprise for the consequences of their own reckless policies and demand still more governmental controls.
— Henry Hazlitt
Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no.
— Morton Blackwell
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
— Dennis Prager
Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.
— Joel Miller
Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator
— Ludwig Von Mises
The SAG was a strange three-legged beast equipped by civilian bureaucrats, administered by the police and staffed by the army.
— Sandeep Unnithan
Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats.
— Rick Perry
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
Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.
— Hugh Sidey
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
— Thomas Sowell
We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.
— Michael O'Leary
For once in his life, Norman has acted rather than gone to a meeting. And this is where it has landed him.
— Paul Torday
Since politicians and bureaucrats can rarely sign real contracts, the best way to prove you'll do something later is to do it now
— Garett Jones
Bureaucrats live on the fat of the land, while the rest of us stay skinny laboring to pay their salaries.
— Charles E. McKenzie
In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
— Narendra Modi
Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The "allies" of today would be the bureaucrats of tomorrow ...
— Albert Meltzer
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
— Richard M. Nixon
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
What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.
— Michio Kaku
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
The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali
