Aaron Broussard Quotes

The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of the bitter recriminations hurled its way.

Big bureaucracies in business and government—they fail too.

Almost everything the government runs becomes mediocre in time ... bureaucracy leads to mediocrity.

It’s easier for Congress to beat civil servants about the ears than address the programs that are not working well.

We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.

Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency, give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.

The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

Government is not guaranteed to work right.

The government generally is just too top-heavy.

The problem in D.C. is that everything is on paper, and it's theoretical.

I never saw a bureaucracy produce a single barrel of oil.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

Government on its own is always inefficient.

I've seen the government up close and personal, and for the most part, it's inefficient and hidebound, and it stifles creativity in any industry it clutches within its well-meaning but slimy tentacles.

News flash: The federal government is not the most efficient institution in the world. Taxpayers know that.

Whether you're a veteran or a millennial, it's hard to argue that big government has solved your problems efficiently, if at all.

Don't make government work like a business... it's inherently inefficient.

The Congress had the opportunity to do a lot of good. It isn't as if they didn't have good people in the party. God knows why they failed. If after 65 years of governance you cannot provide drinking water to everyone then you should be ashamed of yourself.

Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit

Am I disappointed in Barack Obama? Yes, I'm very disappointed in Barack Obama and I'm disappointed in the Democratic administration and in the two Democratic houses of Congress for two years that bailed out Wall Street when they should have bailed out Main Street.

Government commissions are where accountability goes to die.

A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.

One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.