Dwight Eisenhower actually said...
Indeed, I think I might remark in passing that those people who believe that a group of men can be gathered together in Washington-and remember, that's all Government is, just a group of men that you select to perform particular jobs--a group of men, sitting in Washington, to run the affairs of this country in its details better than can the people who are actually doing the work, then we have gone a long, long way away from the kind of country that was given to us by our Founding Fathers, and the kind that we hope to pass on.
09/03/1954