Quotes of: Bureaucrats Keyword

We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.

Kenzaburo Oe

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

Richard M. Nixon

Whenever those immersed in the bureaucratic culture of the age try to think their way through to the moral foundations of what they are and what they do, they will discover suppressed Nietzschean premises. And consequently it is possible to predict w...

After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

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

Rick Perry

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

Harry S Truman

The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.

Erich Fromm

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

Alvin Toffler

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

Robert Conquest

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

Ric Keller

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

Thomas Sowell

There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat.

Neal Boortz

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

Rick Perry

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

Max Weber

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

Dennis Prager

The clear, unmistakable sign of a bureaucrat is somebody who worries about whether he has a window.

Herb Kelleher

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

Robert Heller

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

Linda Chavez

The Japanese press likes me a lot, but the problem is the Japanese government. It's very bureaucratic.

Shuji Nakamura

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

Barbara Boxer

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

Chuck Schumer

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

Elinor Ostrom