Oliver Franks

“The expert should be on tap, but not on top.”

“The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.”

“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”

“Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.”

“A government which pursues secret aims, or which operates in greater secrecy than the effective conduct of its proper functions requires, or which turns information services into propaganda agencies, will lose the trust of the people.”

“The first duty of a government is to be governed.”