Dave Barry Quotes

Being a cabinet minister is not like running a company. A country is not a company.

Government is not an exact science.

One must realise that it is not a child's play to run a government.

(I'm) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.

I don't think we do a great job in America any more of distinguishing between campaigns and governance. We live in an environment that's all campaign all of the time and it's helpful, now that we've moved beyond a campaign and an election to get into a governance posture.

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

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

What is politics but business?

Washington DC is a city of motion, not action.

Governing is about selecting.

The word "politics" is derived from the word "poly", meaning "many", and the word "ticks", meaning "blood sucking parasites".

I did not love politics. As a matter of fact, I hated politics. I loved governing which is … a different thing.

When you get into an airplane, you expect a pilot who knows how to fly. Running a Government is also an expertise.

I am sure of my ability to form a good government.

As entrepreneurs, we sometimes do not understand the complexities of running a government.

Government is not a game show, though at times it is amusing and entertaining to watch.

You have to understand government and you have to understand how hard it is.

It actually turns out to be much harder to really understand government across state local and federal.

So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.

When you're in governance, you understand the limitations and the complexities of governance.

I think I will still feel that same appreciation for what [Winston] Churchill and others have said is the worst form of government except all the alternatives.

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

There's a very big difference between campaigning and governing.