The Administrative State Quotes

“I confess in some contexts ignorance can seem a virtue.”
― Dwight Waldo, The Administrative State: A Study of the Political Theory of American Public Administration

“One of the claims to a special status in democratic government, it seemed to me, was being made by those creating the literature of public administration - a claim more or less obscured by a language of "public service" and "civil servant.”
― Dwight Waldo, The Administrative State: A Study of the Political Theory of American Public Administration