The Rats aren’t listening to us, we’re not listening to them. What a waste of 6 hours of time!
Attributed to Marcus Tullius Cicero, but since I didn't hear him say it, I'm not gonna vouch for it. But I dang well agree with the sentiment....
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?