Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that it gives you the power to use government force to control the lives of others? A dispassionate scientist or a zealot? In government, the zealots eventually take over.
John StosselIf government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.
John Stossel