“The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.”

“The end-game for statists is very obvious. If you expand the bureaucratic class and you expand the dependent class, you can put together a permanent electoral majority. In political terms, a welfare check is a twofer: you're assuring yourself of the votes of both the welfare recipient and of the mammoth bureaucracy required to process his welfare.”

“In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]”

“If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.”

“Bureaucracy will be the deity of the twentieth century.”

“Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.”