Government at all levels can be competent, economical and efficient. Yet I would hasten to point out that nowhere in the Constitution of the United States, or the Declaration of Independence, or the Bill of Rights, or the Emancipation Proclamation, or in the Old Testament or the New Testament do you find the words `economy’ or `efficient’. Not that these two words are unimportant. But you discover words like honesty, integrity, fairness, liberty, justice, courage, patriotism, compassion and love - and many others which describe what a human being ought to be. These are also the same words which describe what a government of human beings ought to be. By: Jimmy Carter Source: Why Not The Best?, 1975 page 116