Bureaucrats Quotes

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept..

Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism -- the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big landlord class and the reactionary section of the intelligentsia attached to them…. As for the vacillating middle bourgeoisie, their right-wing may become our enemy and their left-wing may become our friend -- but we must be constantly on our guard and not let them create confusion within our ranks.

It is a fallacy to think that politicians and bureaucrats are smart enough to manage the economy.

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

To dismiss censorship as crude repression by ignorant bureaucrats is to get it wrong. Although it varied enormously, it usually was a complex process that required talent and training and that extended deep into the social order.

Would I have voted to leave the European Union? Yes, I would. My theory there is that Britain was fed up having won two World Wars against the Germans and had reached the boiling and breaking point of being told where to live and what to do by a bunch of bureaucrats in Belgium. It was out of that frustration that the vote to leave was made.

When we like our new rulers we call them public servants. When we are mad at them we call them bureaucrats; but it is the business of self-government to see that they remain servants of the public instead of becoming its masters.

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.

The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind. What reward did they receive from our culture and its intellectuals? The position of a hated, persecuted minority. The position of a scapegoat for the evils of the bureaucrats.

Congressional sloth in recent years has hit mind-boggling new lows. It’s partly systemic, rooted in a mandatory spending regime that accounts for two-thirds of government dollars and runs on autopilot. That disconnect now imbues every aspect of governance. In the nearly 50 years since Congress created our current system of budgeting and appropriations, it’s managed to complete the process correctly four times. It last did so 25 years ago. The default is massive omnibus bills that are passed hours after release, minutes before the government shuts down for lack of funds.

There are more agriculture bureaucrats than there are farmers in this country.

If you don’t have the budget, you can’t get anything done. That’s why bureaucrats are always fighting about budgets.

ESG is a pernicious strategy, because it allows the left to accomplish what it could never hope to achieve at the ballot box or through competition in the free market. ESG empowers an unelected cabal of bureaucrats, regulators and activist investors to rate companies based on their adherence to left-wing values. Like the social credit scores issued by the Chinese Communist Party, a low ESG score can be devastating, making it virtually impossible for a company to raise capital—and that is exactly the point.

The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats.

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

One of the things that I have encouraged President Trump to do, and I'm optimistic about this, is to take on directly the regulatory state; to take it on, to fire bureaucrats.

Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.

If the forces behind [education] reform seem scattered and weak those defending the status quo—the unions, the politicians, the bureaucrats, and the vendors—are well organized and well financed…. I am convinced that without a major realignment of political forces, we won’t get the dramatic improvements our children need.

The war on drugs is all about money and power, the money and power of politicians, bureaucrats, police and drug dealers.

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

There are too many unions, monopolists, and bureaucrats that behave like hungry sharks, accustomed to feeding off oil revenues and appropriating the extraordinary wealth that Mexico produces but does not share in an equitable and democratic way.

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

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

One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator