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Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats.

Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

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

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy.

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

I've never been impressed with bureaucratic tradition. I don't like it when the parties come to me and say, 'This is the way that it's always done, judge.' I never found anything in the oath I took or the statutes I was asked to look at that said, 'Judge, stop thinking, because this is the way it was done before.'