Expenditures rise to meet income.
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.
If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.
The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.
Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.