David Axelrod, long-time trusted advisor to President Barack Obama, told MSNBC in a mid-May interview,

Part of being president is there’s so much beneath you that you can’t know because the government is so vast[.]

He said this in defending Obama’s claimed ignorance of the doings of the IRS, DoJ’s attacks on the press, and so on.

There’s no greater proof than this of the desperate need to shrink the Federal government, reduce its scope of activity, slash its budget, generally rein it in, and to restore it to the control of the American citizenry.