For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the statistician, but it would be very dull, and would lead to a very unprogressive society.
If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.
Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles Are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, Let us demand the freedom of the elbow To knock the bottles out of their filthy hands. Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, Provided he loves peace, Is a greater lover of the arts Than any so-called art-lover Who loves the arts of war.
A bureaucrat is one who has the power to say "no" but none to say "yes. "
I froze, shocked. (And don't try to clam that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you. )
There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.
Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.
I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.
As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.
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.
A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights.
The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body. He has no right to embark upon innovations if his superiors do not approve of them. His duty and his virtue is to be obedient.
The bureaucrat fell from the sky.