Quotes About Bureaucrat

The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

Not the bureaucrat's stamp on the folder of our fate. But a knot nonetheless, and not of our making.

Since he had, in contrast to his delivery, a big burly squared-off bulk of a body which gave hint of the methodical ruthlessness of more than one Russian bureaucrat, Von Braun's relatively small voice, darting eyes, and semaphoric presentations of lip made it obvious he was a man of opposites. He

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

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

My mom is a bureaucrat officer.

The brain is basically a bureaucrat. It looks at the past, applies it to the present and uses it as a map to predict the future. It literally makes up stories.

Polish leader Boleslaw Bierut, a charisma-free life support system for a bureaucrat's mustache.

If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.

Being described as a stupid bureaucrat with no link to representative democracy is difficult to take.

God is a first-rate bureaucrat, one of the best. In all matters, He sees the truth, but is yet to take a decision.

It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.

But to a bureaucrat paper was never just paper. Paper was life!

Pointless labor, useless trash, but for the bureaucrat nothing's trash until he affronts his soul by throwing it out.

Progressives may privately consider themselves superior, but they know they cannot include that claim in their pitch. Consequently they claim superiority by default. In a society where government controls things and distributes wealth, the power of the bureaucrat becomes predominant.

Quando un rivoluzionario non è un poeta finisce per essere un dittatore o un burocrate, un traditore dei propri sogni...

Now I'm a glorified bureaucrat holding on by my fingernails as we all slide into super-powered chaos. A voice of reason in a world gone mad.

The man behind the counter was as elongated and flat as if he had passed under a roller. Wrapped in the dusty smell of lentils, he was anomalous among the spices and Bollywood DVDs, having clad his two dimensions in a bureaucrat's pressed trousers and pinstriped shirt.

Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.

Naturally, bureaucrats can be expected to embrace a technology that helps to create the illusion that decisions are not under their control. Because of its seeming intelligence and impartiality, a computer has an almost magical tendency to direct attention away from the people in charge of bureaucratic functions and toward itself, as if the computer were the true source of authority. A bureaucrat armed with a computer is the unacknowledged legislator of our age, and a terrible burden to bear.