State Bureau

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or bureau:

“A functioning police state needs no police.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)

“Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, “What will you have, sir?” And I said, “A glass of hemlock.””
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)