#bureaucrats

I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business. ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#agency #answers #available #bureaucrats #business

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

— Richard M. Nixon

#because #bureaucrats #change #chaos #exist

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty. ↗

— Ron Paul

#bureaucrats #congressmen #definition #engineering #federal

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

— Dennis Prager

#bureaucrats #century #dictators #done #faceless

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

#care #decision #decision making #forced #government

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

#corners #cup #dubious #employs #find

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#bureaucrats #everything #never #nothing #outcomes

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

#gullible #hands #hearts #help #may

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

#anticipation #bureaucrats #bury #dropped #dump

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

#because #behave #bureaucrats #different #differently