Quotes of Functionary - somelinesforyou

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

- Alben W. Barkley

“ The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. ”

- Brooks Atkinson

“ Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. ”

- Grover Cleveland

“ Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats. ”

- John McCarthy

“ The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion of their power. ”

- John Berger

“ There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. ”

- Gore Vidal

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

- Richard M. Nixon

“ Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. ”

- Milton Friedman

“ Corrupt, stupid, grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish, and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. ”

- Walter Lippmann
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