… is from page 109 of George Will’s 2021 book, American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020 – a collection of many of Will’s columns over these years; (the column from which the quotation below is drawn originally appeared at National Review on March 16th, 2017):
Government breeds advocacy groups that lobby it to do what it wants to do anyway – expand what it is doing.