Bruce Sterling Quotes

The Republicans are the party that says that government doen't work, and then they get elected and prove it.

It takes our government an awful lot of time to do most things competently, and that's part of the problem here.

Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.

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

Whether we're at war or have been attacked, the foundation of society is that you hold to the laws in place. I used to be somebody that trusted the government. Now I really don't trust anything.

The government never does anything successfully.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

People don't like politicians.

I believe the relationship you have with your government is not so different to a love relationship.

People don't trust government, they don't trust Wall Street, they don't trust the church, they don't trust the media.

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability.

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.

No commission created in this town has automatic credibility. You have to earn it.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

Nobody really believes any more that government delivers.

Congress is constantly engaged in a struggle for the respect of the people.

One reason you tend to doubt conspiracy theories when you've worked in government is because you know government is not nearly competent enough to carry off elaborate theories

I have to say to the Government that you are not even getting nowhere fast - you are getting nowhere slowly.

If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable.

The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse.

It's hard not to get down on the government when you see dysfunction play out on our TVs every day. Frankly, sometimes at every level of government.

Anything that the private sector can do, the government can do it worse.

Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.