A government which robs Peter to pay paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -George Bernard Shaw
Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it. -Hugh Sidey
The road to democracy is not a freeway. It is a toll road on which we pay by accepting and carrying out our civic responsibilities. -Lucius Clay
Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible. -Reinhold Niebuhr
Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
-Lawrence J. Peter