“You know how in movies the new president comes in and promises to perf...” — Charles C. Mann Quote

“You know how in movies the new president comes in and promises to perform sweeping actions with a stroke of a pen? The Administrative Procedure Act is designed to thwart this sort of maneuver.”

“Rather than forcing local factories to clean up after themselves, Changzhou decided to outsource the job of managing its water supply to a French company named Veolia - one of a handful of corporate giants now scrambling to take over city water systems around the planet, especially in the often polluted and water-short developing world.”

“For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.”

“It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.”

“There's a lot of just administrative work that comes along with having employees.”