Bureaucrats

"As if he needed me to say "Slam Dunk" to go to war with Iraq."

"We don't torture people. Let me say that again to you. We don't torture people, OK."

"One reason you tend to doubt conspiracy theories when you've worked in government is because you know government is not nearly competent enough to carry off elaborate theories. It's a banal explanation, but imagine how efficient it would need to be."