Trish Regan Quotes

Some governments are corrupt but are known for their competency in running the city. Others are incompetent but are considered "clean." [Washington] DC's government is scandalously corrupt and hopelessly incompetent.

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

I am furious with the tragically misplaced priorities and criminal neglect of this government …. Bush, Cheney, Chertoff, Brown and Rice should be tried for criminal negligence.

… the intersection of ideology and incompetence.

Washington is a cesspool of non-accountability.

If the Board of Trade or Local Government Board managed their business after the fashion of the Foreign Office and Colonial Office, you and I should deserve to be hung.

The administration of government has become more complex. The opportunities for malfeasance and corruption have multiplied.

Incompetency, criminal negligence, and almost treasonable administration of national defense.

While this gang-this common gang of cormorants and bloodsuckers, have been fattening upon the country for the past four of five years-men never going into the field, who growl at being removed from their fat offices, they are great patriots! Look at them all over your district?

High-level corruption, inefficiency, non-governance, and policy paralysis have crippled the nation's economy.

In government, the scum rises to the top.

People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.

Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Government is dysfunctional.

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.

I have never seen conduct of the Federal Government so egregious.

If we permit ourselves to be ill served, to be served by corrupt and incompetent and inefficient men, then on our own head must the blame rest.