The Weed Agency Quotes

“That tiny part of your soul that believes in a ‘good government’ ideal requires you to avert your eyes from the segment of the civil service that is attracted to the work precisely because it doesn’t really want to work.”
― Jim Geraghty, The Weed Agency: A Comic Tale of Federal Bureaucracy Without Limits

“A healthy agency does not require relevance to the national agenda so much as the APPEARANCE of relevance to the national agenda," Humphrey explained. "It is perhaps the second-most important tool in ensuring continued funding."
"And the most important?"
"A friend on the Appropriations committee.”
― Jim Geraghty, The Weed Agency: A Comic Tale of Federal Bureaucracy Without Limits

“The gargantuan, ever-growing, ever-less-accountable, impossible-to-uproot federal bureaucracy is actually the sleeper issue of our time. It’s at the heart of the conservative critique of modern government: faceless bureaucrats writing incomprehensible regulations that complicate our lives for no good reason.”
― Jim Geraghty, The Weed Agency: A Comic Tale of Federal Bureaucracy Without Limits