Joseph Story Quotes

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim to the top

It wouldn't be the worst thing if you don't play that well but take points.

Leader Reid is doing a horrendous job.

In government, the scum rises to the top.

No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.

In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

We're on our way to Greece, in the hands of a confused, foolish government. It's got to stop. It's got to stop.

We have government by the clueless, over a place they’ve never been, using means they don’t possess.

Bad government is made in the poling places of this country.

Most of the misery and poverty in the world is due to bad government.

Government does not have basic business sense.

The question today is not whether the government is too small or too small, but whether or not it works

The question of our time is rapidly becoming can government get things done?

It seems that the reins of government are held with too feeble a hand..

We are strong country with weak leadership.

I am inheriting a country which has been badly ravaged by years of misrule and ineptitude. There has been a wide disconnect between the people and the government.

It sucks when you do poorly at your job.

If you ask any footballer, if you haven't won a game all season you're not going to be confident.

Where incompetence is prized, it is ever-present.

A government that doesn't work is in no one's interest.

Football is still fun, but it's not so much fun when you're losing, especially when you prepare as hard as you can, you go out and have four targets, two catches and 10 yards.

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership.