Ross Douthat

Bill Clinton and Barack Obama represented somewhat different party factions, but they both embodied wonkery, a vision of competence and expertise governing to some extent above ideology, in which there are assumed to be 'correct answers' to policy dilemmas that a disinterested observer could acknowledge and the right technocrat achieve.

American Author

David Blunkett

By confirming the importance of politics and politicians in Britain, we can build from the bottom up and begin to reverse the worrying anti-politics trend, which will empower the elite technocrats and leave defenceless the man or woman in the street with a mere vote to cast.

British Politician

Virginia Postrel

With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to dream of central planning. It exists for no good reason. But that's practically a definition of art.

American Writer

Ron Perlman

I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.

American Actor

Kurt Vonnegut

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

Brian Grazer

Almost every person that I had a preconception of, I was wrong. With Edward Teller, I was right. He was an autocrat and a technocrat, with no feeling for humanity.

American Producer

Marine Le Pen

The people must have the opportunity to vote for the liberation from slavery and blackmail imposed by technocrats in Brussels to return sovereignty to the country.

French Politician

Raghuram Rajan

The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement ideas and reform programs.

Indian Economist

James Carville

Romney is an accomodationist technocrat who is an ideological pretzel of a man.

American Lawyer

Gita Gopinath

I am purely a technocrat and I reject all ideological labels.

Technocrats are not just experts in technology but also in managing projects or policies.

Expert Manager

Technocrats are often appointed in governments to make informed policy decisions.

Government Roles

Using 'technocrat' can imply a person has a very professional and technical image, not just a political one.

Professional Image

 to hope that the process by which the world decides these new goals is going to be legitimate right well as we gather here in Edinburgh technocrats appointed by the UN and certain governments were the best intentions are busying themselves designing a new package of goals and currently they're doing that

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 Palchinsky's view on technocrats is very different from one that is still very popular, still very common -- that of a dispassionate researcher working in his ivory tower lab, or a nerdy engineer working in his cubicle. Brilliant, no doubt,

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 incentives tax holidays and such and then skills availability where are the skills I know in a country like mine or vocational colleges were made into universities and we lost that middle group of technocrats that the