International institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.
If you don’t have the budget, you can’t get anything done. That’s why bureaucrats are always fighting about budgets.
You can't make a manager have a coach he doesn't want. I can't make the head of the accounting department work with someone he doesn't want.
Because the average negro organization, especially, can't see the problem in its entirety. They can't even see that the problem is so big that their own organization as such, by itself, can never come to a, can never come up with a solution.
Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.
I look at the problem of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans as being a problem that's so broad in scope that it's almost impossible for any organization to see it in its entirety.
It's unfair to expect the USTA, just because they make this pot of money, to just snap their fingers and make champions. It's not simple, and anyone who thinks it is hasn't really looked underneath the hood to see how the engine works.
... people are capable of more than their organizational positions ever give them the tools or the time or the opportunity to demonstrate.
One of the reasons I wanted to leave my position at Common Cause and return to politics was to regain the freedom to speak out politically - to not be constrained by a non-partisan organization.
The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.
We both got caught on making a bureaucracy work on things that were much bigger than that which they had ever worked on.
One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.
No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.
In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
