Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1372
AUTHOR:
Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1900–65)
QUOTATION:
In the tragic days of Mussolini, the trains in Italy ran on time as never before and I am told in their way, their horrible way, that the Nazi concentration-camp system in Germany was a model of horrible efficiency. The really basic thing in government is policy. Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
ATTRIBUTION:
ADLAI E. STEVENSON, governor of Illinois, speech before the Los Angeles Town Club, Los Angeles, California, September 11, 1952.—Speeches of Adlai Stevenson, p. 36 (1952).
