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The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

I regard my organization as one big family.

Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.

If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.