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Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill. — Helen Prejean
An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. — Eugene McCarthy
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. — Ted Nugent
Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy. — Alexandra Kollontai
Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. — Dale Dauten
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. — Honore de Balzac
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. — Ronald Reagan
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Everything government touches turns to crap. — Ringo Starr
The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years. — Tom Coburn
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. — Mary McCarthy
One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt. — Lee Iacocca
Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail, they bully to get what they want. — Rush Limbaugh
Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace. — Widad Akrawi
Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other. — Leon Trotsky
Short Government Bureaucracy Quotes
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline. — James C. Collins
The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket. — Tom G. Palmer
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. — Milton Friedman
No government functions without the grease of corruption. — Carlos Fuentes
Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
In government, the scum rises to the top. — Friedrich August von Hayek
Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself. — Ibn Khaldun
The government - they're completely useless. — Chamath Palihapitiya
Government Bureaucracy Image Quotes
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
Government Bureaucracy Quotes
Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite. — Ronald Reagan
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it. — Thomas Sowell
One of the many ways the administrative state is unconstitutional: it destroys separation of powers. — Vivek Ramaswamy
Love your country, but never trust its government.
Simplify rules, regulations, and laws. Get government out of the business of micromanaging. — Edward O. Thorp
Inflation is a tax, and that tax can only be imposed by governments. — Russell Napier
The essential role of government is to create the conditions under which people can live fulfilling lives. — Martha C. Nussbaum
The government will one day be corrput and filled with liars and the people will flock to the one who tells the truth.
Nothing happens except God allows it. Nobody comes to government except God allows it, even if the election is rigged. — Enoch Adeboye
The real point about credit bubbles is that they are fueled by the promise of government actions, not the reality of what has been achieved. — Russell Napier
I believe one of the main roles of Government is to keep our economy free and fair. — Liz Truss
Once wide coercive powers are given to government agencies… such powers cannot be effectively controlled. — Friedrich August von Hayek
Bureaucracy Quotes
Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor. — Rosa Luxemburg
Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society. — Carlos Salinas de Gortari
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself... Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable.
The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. — Abraham Lincoln
The problem we are trying to solve is that of drugs that would have never seen the light of day for reasons that have nothing to do with the inherent properties of drug candidates themselves and more to do with bureaucratic institutions within which they often sit. — Vivek Ramaswamy
Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinkng. They want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.
I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention. — Kenny Guinn
Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need. — Christopher Bond
Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired. — Walter Walker
Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business. — Gary Keller
Business Bureaucracy Quotes
Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy. — Herbert Hoover
Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy. — Sayings
Combination does not produce though mergers and combinations are still the accepted panacea. In Big business there appears to be increasing aridity, bureaucracy, and stultifying sacrifice of initiative and above all fear. — Reginald Fessenden
The government's first duty is to protect the people.
Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy. — Theresa May
I look at some of the things that Donald Trump will do around cutting red tape, reducing bureaucracy, helping entrepreneurs, helping businesses grow more rapidly, more access to capital - I'm all for it. That's all stuff that I've been trying to do in Colorado. — John Hickenlooper
Be prepared for the creation of an intrusive bureaucracy to police the ordinance by examining the books and payroll ledgers of businesses. — Randy Hamilton
If there is no justice for the people, there be no peace for the government.
Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape. — James Surowiecki
That is why I strongly believe we should working in Congress to make America a better place to run a business by reducing the costly burdens of bureaucracy and red tape. — Michael K. Simpson
If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit. — Samuel J. Palmisano
Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress. — Fred Upton
Government And Politics Quotes
What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires. — Bernie Sanders
There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution. — John Adams
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. — Voltaire
A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them. Which would include their own government.
I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations. — Queen Victoria
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. — Edward R. Murrow
When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. — Frederic Bastiat
The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from government.
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest. — Baron de Montesquieu
Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Now is the time to alter our government. Now is the time to stop the movement toward oligarchy. Now is the time to create a government which represents all Americans and not just the 1%... No more excuses. We must all become involved in the political process. — Bernie Sanders
The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing. — John Adams
Government Service Quotes
To ensure financial stability, we expect the provision of U.S. government securities settlement services to be robust in nearly all contingencies. — Jerome Powell
Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S — Rosa DeLauro
That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting. — Peter Drucker
The duty of a true Patriot is to protect his country from its government.
We argued, as did the security services in this country, that the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq would increase the threat of terrorist attack in Britain. Tragically Londoners have now paid the price of the government ignoring such warnings. — George Galloway
That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest. — James Madison
Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you can never get out of the store. — Mark Steyn
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. — Ronald Reagan
Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve. — James Cook
I dream of a Digital India where Government services are easily and efficiently available to citizens on Mobile devices. — Narendra Modi
To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government. — Martin Van Buren
Most people would agree that the E.U. is too bureaucratic, not transparent or democratic enough and that it often interferes too much in matters that are best left to national governments. — Nicola Sturgeon
There’s huge amounts of good that can be done by a government that works constructively versus a zero-sum vision of government. — Sam Bankman-Fried
Economics and finance is the final frontier for women; it’s the last thing they will conquer because controlling finance is at the heart of everything in government. — Liz Truss
Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem. — Ronald Reagan
No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline. — Calvin Coolidge
The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism - a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule. — Salvador Allende
Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work. — Albert Einstein
I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists. — John Steinbeck
Bitcoin is not “unregulated”. It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted. — Andreas Antonopoulos
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. — Ronald Reagan
Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical. — Karl Marx
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. — Aldous Huxley
Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper. — Jean Giraudoux
You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy. — Ronald Reagan
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it. — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything. — Jaime Lerner
To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer. — L. Neil Smith
[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the people against bureaucracy, against the government. — Laurence Tribe
The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it. — Mark Steyn
Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration. — Richard V. Allen
Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose of
government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy. — George Carlin
Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us. — P. J. O'Rourke
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols. — George Bernard Shaw
I don't want a lot of bureaucracy... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious. — Charlie Crist
The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy. — Mitt Romney
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. — Gary Bauer
Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy. — Chris Chocola
The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it. — Harold Ford, Jr.
Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill. — Michele Bachmann
At every other workplace in the nation - even Mal-Mart! - workers are being laid off. But no one at any of the bloated government bureaucracies ever need fear receiving a pink slip. All 64,750 employees at the department of Health and Human Services are apparently absolutely crucial to the smooth functioning of the department. — Ann Coulter
As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state. — Adam Smith
I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent. — Margaret Atwood
Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time
making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts. — Herbert Hoover
The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction, as the core reason. — Paul Wolfowitz
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