When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.
Lead, follow or get of the way
Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.
The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.
Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.