More from James Q. Wilson's American Government textbook. Interesting note: Rob Spinney had Wilson as a prof at Harvard. I remember mentioning this textbook to him several years ago. He responded, "Jimmy Q! He was a great professor. Very professional. Always dapper."
"If we wanted agencies to pursue their main goal with more vigor and less encumbering red tape, we would have to ask Congress, the courts, or the White House to repeal some of these constraints. In other words, we would have to be willing to give up something we want in order to get something else we want even more. But politics does not encourage people to make these trade-offs; instead it encourages us to expect to get everything- efficiency, fairness, help for minorities- all at once."
–James Q. Wilson and John Dilulio, American Government
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