Top 240 Bureaucrats Quotes & Sayings

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

Courts of law require evidence to go to trial - not opinions from bureaucrats.

Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.

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

Bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., shouldn't know how to better educate my kids than I do.

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any less qualified, any less competent or honest, or any less hard-working than the men who manage businesses. Conversely, there is no reason to believe that business managers, put in control of service institutions, would do better than the 'bureaucrats'. Indeed, we know that they immediately become bureaucrats themselves.

Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

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

In our time ... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in ancient times. But those gods you must understand were far more imaginative than our tiny bureaucrats. They spoke from mountaintops not from tiny airless offices. They rode clouds. They were possessed of passion. They had voices and names. Six thousand years of civilization have brought us to this.

Unelected bureaucrats in Washington should not have anything to do with the healthcare decisions made between a patient and their doctor.

I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away.

The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

Obamacare is bureaucrats getting between you and your doctor, and that's what Americans most dislike about this legislation.

By extorting water through permitting, leasing, and other use schemes, government bureaucrats have trampled on the rights of local communities.

The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats.

When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are 'procedures in place.'

Bureaucrats in D.C. shouldn't interfere with local conservation efforts that are more than capable of managing the species effectively while also protecting livestock.

When your money is taken by a thief, you get nothing in return. When your money is taken through taxes to support needless bureaucrats, precisely the same situation exists. We are lucky, indeed, if the needless bureaucrats are mere easy-going loafers. They are more likely today to be energetic reformers busily discouraging and disrupting production.

Taking control of our laws border and money, run not by a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats in Brussels but by a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats in Britain. That ladies and gentlemen is a dream worth fighting for.

I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid.

Remember, most of the bureaucrats voted for Hillary Clinton. Most of the bureaucrats deeply dislike what Trump is trying to accomplish, and most of the bureaucrats think they can't be fired, so they can outlast you.

In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.

The obstacle for us is not Islam, but the bureaucrats in Brussels.

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.

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

Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.

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

The Euro-bureaucrats are destroying every bit of national identity and individuality.

My view is that the Internet should be run by engineers and entrepreneurs, not lawyers and bureaucrats.

Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes.

The bureaucrats tremble because they don't perform. In the past nobody checked their work. Now that I do it they are scared.

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

democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.

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

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

Why do politicians and bureaucrats get salaries and perks from the pockets of the poor and do nothing for them? So I took action against the corrupt and the lazy.

My own view is that the Internet should be run by technologists and engineers and business people, not by lawyers and bureaucrats here in the nation's capital.

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.

People won't want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain. Our aim should be to give the British people greater control of their lives in all regards.

Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world's greatest care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor.

We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of bureaucrats.

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.

The vaunted Democratic stimulus bill has failed to stimulate anything other than a few federal bureaucrats.

Bureaucrats serve their own interests first.

Bureaucrats live on the fat of the land, while the rest of us stay skinny laboring to pay their salaries.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.

India needs honest bureaucrats; most officers in the system are corrupt.

The less attractive the character, the more I enjoyed writing them. Officious bureaucrats and PowerPoint weasels are where it's at for me.

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.

Bureaucrats denounce private enterprise for the consequences of their own reckless policies and demand still more governmental controls.

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats needs to end.