Jeff Vandermeer Quotes

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

A lot of the dysfunction that exists underneath the surface of a lot of big business corporations is really profound.

Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

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

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.

It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.

Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations.

If some imaginative practical joker had been appointed by the malevolent gods to devise, for our sins, a system of municipal government, he would have invented something like what we have, though better.

The captains of the [political] system become the captives of the system.

This is why I hate governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by the fine print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.

Sometimes it's hard to tell which evokes more anger – businesses that know and care about nothing except profits or governments that know and care about nothing except power and paper-pushing. However, anger is not a solution. Anger attempts to shout down problems, and it never works.

Large government is inevitably inefficient, but so, too, is large private enterprise.

I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in.

In the Dobbsian view of America, the mainstream media isn't evil because it's liberal but because it's lazy. And Washington is utterly corrupt, has sold out, Democrats and Republicans alike. And corporate America is an insatiable pig.

I have a lot less faith in the system. You really don't understand how swampy it is until you get here.

I thought I was going to go into politics, but that became disheartening. You see that a lot of stuff doesn't get done, people walk around all self-important, and it's just depressing.

I really can't abide conspiracy theories, because I believe that everything in the world stems from idiocy and incompetence. That's certainly true of most of what's happened in Russia under Putin.

God, it stinks,” I said, hand over my nose as he pulled me into a long step. Al strode forward, head high. “It’s the stench of bureaucracy, my itchy-witch, and why I chose to go into human resources when but a wee lad.

I think anyone who serves in public office should have a little bit of contempt for government in their heart.

Let's face it, politics in this country is coin-operated. Does that really equate to a real democracy? It's very difficult to say.

Management is the set of skills that can help get things done. Unfortunately, its practice is too often a bag of manipulative tricks to advance someone's own interests, which creates cynicism.

Zedillo's lack of political savvy is a personal flaw. But his insulated and elitist governing style reflect the age-old vices of the political system itself.

'Veep' is a great satire of democracy.

Mr. Trump has tapped into the frustrations of many Americans who feel the effects of a dismal economy and believe the political system is rigged and owned by the establishment.