“He's a New Economy technocrat, raised at the heart of government, with a privileged education.”

“Birt, a revolutionary technocrat who related ambiguously to artists, sent out conciliatory messages with his famously unstructured Armani suits.”

“A technocrat to his fingertips, he is exactly the kind of individual who keeps modern civilization moving smoothly along.”

“The cinema we need, the cinema that combats technocracy will, therefore, be non-narrative.”

“The main parties all offer slightly different versions of turned-on technocracy.”

“The end of the 1960s saw a rejection of technocracy, for many valid reasons.”

“If the state's wisdom came from majoritarian prejudices, rather than the expertise of its technocrats, that would take us no further.”

“There are some technocrats who simply had to be Baathists in order to work.”

“We are told to trust un-elected technocrats, that political or popular concerns are invalid.”