The best way to kill a new idea is to put it in an old-line agency.

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) American politician, educator, US President (1963-69)

Comment (1964)
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On assigning his War on Poverty programs to a new office (the Office of Economic Opportunity), reporting directly to the White House, rather than spreading it through existing federal programs and departments like Labor; Agriculture; or Health, Education, and Welfare.

Quoted in Rowland Evans, Jr., and Robert Novak, Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of Power, ch. 19 "The Great Society" (1966).