Wayne Messam Quotes

The school system has become a part of this huge government machine, governed by people who aren't close to the situation. That's why I'm a Republican. I believe in small government.

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.

Government tends to believe in top-down solutions, and government fears of bottom-up solutions.

I think it is time for a radical federalism in this country, where people trust innovation coming from the local level and ramp that up.

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event.

I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Washington.

Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.

Many Americans simply don't want the pinheads in Washington or the various state capitals to be telling us how to live. But we are absolutely going in that direction. President Obama is hell-bent on imposing a bureaucracy that levels all playing fields at great expense in coin and in freedom.

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack.

I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

Washington is a cesspool of non-accountability.

Government is not an exact science.

Government and business should remain distinct and separate, one directed from Washington, the other from New York.

Washington is not a geographical entity, it is a state of mind.... People understand how Cleveland works. They even understand how New York City works, but they can't figure Washington out.

Washington has political power combined with the insider illusion of being in control.

As usual, the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

I am going to make Washington as irrelevant to your lives as possible

Arguments are made in Washington with very few facts behind them.

Governments today are organizations of elderly men who know no other to work and govern than the ways of their youth.

I want you to learn nothing from government. This place is dead intellectually. It does not produce any ideas; it is all about turf battles and checking the box. Your job is to break through all this.

It’s tough for Washington to pass complicated legislation.

… lobbyist-larded Washington