#bureaucrats

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, especially when it comes to bureaucrats in a government who has no clueabout money matters ↗

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

#government #money #power #stupidity #age

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

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

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#architecture #bureaucrats #complicated #criticism #functions

I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#attempt #brought #bureaucrats #classification #classified

In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#bureaucrats #case #department #door #drive

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats. ↗

— John McCarthy

#bureaucrats #even #even worse #often #professional

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

— Curt Weldon

#brave #brave soldiers #bureaucrats #chance #deny

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#bureaucratic #bureaucrats #centralized #crossroads #define

By exiling human judgment in the last few decades, modern law changed role from useful tool to brainless tyrant. This legal regime will never be up to the job, any more than the Soviet system of central planning was, because ti can't think. The comedy of law's sterile logic--large POISON signs warning against common sand, spending twenty-two years on pesticide review and deciding next to nothing, allowing fifty-year-old white men to sue for discrimination--is all too reminiscent of the old jokes we used to hear about life in the Eastern bloc. Judgement is to law as water is to crops. It should not be surprising that law has become brittle, and society along with it. ↗

— Philip K. Howard

#bureaucrats #human-judgment #law #regulation #responsibility