Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.
We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.
Old-style management is irrelevant.
It took a firm hand, sometimes a fist, to imbue a bureaucracy this vast with effective compassion.
Describes the task of running the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Though I am not a chief of state, I must work twice as hard as one because I have to both administer a bureaucracy and run a revolution.
The bulk of government is not legislation but administration.
I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990.
What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion.
[Jeb Bush] could, as I describe it, run the railroad.[John] Kasich could run the railroad. Hillary Clinton can run the railroad. Running the railroad is the most important thing. You have got 4 million employees; you've got to make the system work, and it doesn't work very well.