“We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.” ProudPoliticianWelfareSocialistBureaucratsCrossroadsExceptionalismAmerican Exceptionalism Author:Newt Gingrich
“...[I]f we care about our remaining liberties we must at some point draw a line in the sand and let politicians and bureaucrats know we will not tolerate further encroachment on our God-given rights to liberty.” KnowsCareGivenLinesLibertyRightsPoliticianDrawsSandTolerateBureaucratsEncroachmentLines In The Sand Author:Walter E. Williams
“Government should be of the people, by the people, for the people. What part of that do politicians and government bureaucrats not understand? Government has no right to keep secrets from the people. The people are paying for it. It's THEIR government. They have a right to know everything going on.” PeopleKnowsShouldGovernmentSecretPoliticianBureaucrats Author:Wayne Allyn Root
“Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.” MeanPastPoliticalDecisionEconomyInformationDisciplinePoliticianManageMarketplaceBureaucratsUninformedMiscalculationsPolitical DecisionsInformation Knowledge Book:Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto Source: Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
“Politicians and bureaucrats clearly have no idea how complicated markets are. Every day people make countless tradeoffs, in all areas of life, based on subjective value judgements and personal information as they delicately balance their interests, needs and wants. Who is in a better position than they to tailor those choices to best serve their purposes? Yet the politicians believe they can plan the medical market the way you plan a birthday party.” PeopleWayWantNeedsBelieveIdeasPurposeValuesChoicesInterestPartyPlansInformationPositionBalancePoliticianAreasComplicatedMedicalNo IdeaJudgementSubjectiveBureaucratsTailorsBirthday PartyNeeds And WantsPersonal Information Author:John Stossel
“When government 'creates jobs' by taking money from the private sector and 'investing' in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity. Rather, the government has preempted the economic process, forbidding it to serve consumers so that it can instead serve the objectives of politicians and bureaucrats.” GovernmentJobsProcessEconomicPoliticianActivityProjectsInvestingObjectivesConsumersProductivePrivate SectorBureaucrats Author:Sheldon Richman
“Today, the law is a crazy quilt of provisions and clauses that very often have little to do with securing general happiness but instead are designed to secure the particular happiness of various advocacy groups, politicians and bureaucrats.” LittlesTodayLawGroupsCrazyParticularPoliticianVariousSecureProvisionBureaucratsAdvocacyClausesQuilts Author:Joel Miller
“Do we really want the people who created $40 trillion of unfunded liabilities in Social Security and Medicare in charge of our health care? Faceless bureaucrats, power-lusting politicians, and people spending other people's money are a recipe for disaster.” PeopleWantCareSocialSecurityPoliticianSpendingDisasterLustHealth CareRecipesSocial SecurityMedicareBureaucratsLiabilityFacelessSpending Other People's Money Author:Ed Crane
“Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.” UseGovernmentCommonGroupsPoliticianCommon GoodBureaucratsAdvocacy Author:Joel Miller
“Politicians, bureaucrats, editors, new commentators, 'economists' teachers,' and other word artists who denounce private enterprise and praise socialism are their own worst enemies...these attackers are unwittingly destroying the sources of their own livelihood. They kill the geese that lay the golden eggs - and don't know it!” KnowsArtistEnemyTeacherWorstSourcePoliticianPraiseLaysSocialismGoldenEnterpriseEggsEditorsDestroyingEconomistCommentatorsGeeseBureaucratsLivelihoodWorst EnemyPrivate EnterpriseGolden Eggs Author:Leonard Read
“Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats.” YearsHumansTechnologyRevolutionPoliticianYears AgoPriestsNew TechnologyFertileBureaucratsCrescent Author:G. Harry Stine
“The money we spend on education should follow the choice of the parents, not the choice of educrats, bureaucrats, politicians, who, unfortunately, have been manipulating this process in their own career interests, not in the interests of our young people.” PeopleShouldHas BeensYoungChoicesProcessParentInterestCareersPoliticianBureaucrats Author:Alan Keyes
“Iowans are feeling the pinch of a big federal government, and elected officials like Bruce Braley keep championing the over reaching bureaucracy. Iowans know what is best for Iowa more than Washington politicians and bureaucrats do.” KnowsFeelingsBigsGovernmentPoliticianOfficialsReachingFederal GovernmentBureaucracyBureaucratsIowaElected Officials Author:Joni Ernst
“I am interested in power, too, but power for you, the people, not power for bureaucrats and politicians and officeholders and all the like.” PeoplePoliticianBureaucrats Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.” DifferentPoliticianIncentivesBureaucrats Author:James M. Buchanan
“The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.” Has BeensSelfBigsGovernmentPresidentResultsPowerfulPoliticianDisasterAgendasServingPresident ObamaTestedBureaucratsBig GovernmentSelf Serving Author:Rush Limbaugh
“How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?” IfsTryingPoliticianSakeRussiaLoudFundTrustedBureaucrats Author:Vladimir Putin