Former-secretary Mike Leavitt, Kathleen Sebelius’s predecessor as secretary of Health and Human Services (and my former boss), writes in today’s Washington Post:

Shortly after being appointed to the Cabinet in 2003, I sought the advice of one of my predecessors. He cautioned me to be prudent in exercising the considerable regulatory power Congress had granted these offices, noting: “The place has more power than a good person needs or a bad person ought to have.”