Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson (190065)
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.
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).