Public administration is the management of men and materials in the accomplishment of the purposes of the state. - Leonard D. White

[ Lawyers are clear. On the one hand, they are important and deserve] special consideration [because they] are always found at the right hand of the administrator whose actions must be legally defensible. A lawyer, therefore, sits close to the seat of administrative authority... Policy may have to yield to constitutionality, and the lawyers prescribe. On the other hand, it must be said that the training of the lawyer, based on precedent, and looking backward rather than forward for guidance, is not a training which is suited to make an ideal administrator.

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

The role of administration in the modern state is profoundly affected by the general political and cultural environment of the age.