You cannot give an official power to do right without at the same time giving him power to do wrong. - Leonard D. White

Public administration is the management of men and materials in the accomplishment of the purposes of the state.

* John M. Gaus, Leonard Dupee White, and Marshall E. Dimock. Frontiers of public administration. (1936).

[ Public administration is merely] a special case of the larger category, administration, a process which is common to all organized human effort and which is highly developed in modern corporate business, in the church, in the Red Cross, in education, and in international bodies, public and private.