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Heather Brooke - The first thing is that you're always...
The first thing is that you're always at a disadvantage, because a bureaucracy is funded by the public to have permanent people there who can relentlessly advocate for their own interest. And that's the problem: when bureaucracy stops working for the public interest. (Heather Brooke)

The first thing is that you're always at a disadvantage, because a bureaucracy is funded by the public to have permanent people there who can relentlessly advocate for their own interest. And that's the problem: when bureaucracy stops working for the public interest.

Heather Brooke

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