Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. — John Kenneth Galbraith. Canadian-American economist and diplomat (1908–2006)
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.