James Q. Wilson

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open political system_The central feature of the American constitutional system__he separation of powers__xacerbates many of these problems. The governments of the US were not designed to be efficient or powerful, but to be tolerable and malleable. Those who designed these arrangements always assumed that the federal government would exercise few and limited powers.