Alexander Hamilton 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, in practice, be a bad government.

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of government.

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

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

It may be laid down as a general rule, that their confidence in and obedience to a government, will be commonly proportioned to the goodness or badness of its administration . . . . Various reasons have been suggested in the course of these papers, to induce a probability that the general government will be better administered than the particular governments.

I have rarely seen the government do anything that was effective.

The President wants to avoid being a lame duck. He’s trying not to limp and quack at the same time.

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

When I embarked in the government, it was with a determination to intermeddle not at all with the legislature.

The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it.

Government does not have basic business sense.

Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of a good government.

American government has usually been pretty good in a crisis and pretty lousy at all other times.

The social power of the Presidency is one of the most powerful tools a President can use.

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.

Our battle over the size of the state overlooks a problem that is just as important and that may be easier to muster the collective will to resolve: how effective government is, regardless of its scale.

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.

The problem is that the American public is suspicious of executive power shrouded in secrecy. In the absence of an official picture of what our government is doing, and by what authority, many in the public fill the void by envisioning the worst.

As members of Congress, we may disagree with the administration's position on foreign policy matters, but the fact remains: the Executive Branch is tasked with handling diplomatic matters.

The hope of a nation depends on a president that will follow through even in the most unfavorable of political climates.

In government, the scum rises to the top.