Political Quotes

“We have been working on a project that we call the myth of the magical bureaucracy, and it deals with what bureaucrats and the bureaucracy in Washington are being asked to do in America. They are being asked to do a number of different things. We are talking about this city. We are talking about what has happened in this city where we have Independence Avenue, which in many cases now has become Dependence Avenue. It is the avenue that is full of bureaucracy that has moved decision making away from the American people and has moved the decision powers to here in Washington. These buildings are staffed by what in many cases we call magical bureaucrats. We call them magical bureaucrats because we are asking them to do things which they were never equipped or able in power to do. Today we are talking about a bureaucrat who we have asked to become a film maker, a film maker for the National Endowment for the Arts.”