Chuck Todd Quotes

Government is dysfunctional.

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

Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

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.

You wonder why your government's completely broken? We lurch from deadline to deadline, and it's on purpose really. We do deadline to deadline because ... 'we've got to go. It's spring break, we're going to be late for spring break, and we've got to go, so we've got to finish this up before we go.'

How our government works... it doesn't.

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

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Like most thoughtful people who watch what's going on in Washington, venting is very necessary.

A Senator of the United States … serves his people by joining in the petty squabbles that occupy so much time of the Senate today. I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I’d rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.

The people are fed up with politics and partisanship.

Washington is broken but America still works.

I understand firsthand that Washington is broken.

The more I watch politicians in action, it just makes me angry.

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.

This world is always fed up with politicians.

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

Government usually doesn't work. It doesn't work because it is political. People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs. The difference between the political process and an honest life is the difference between parading around waving picket signs while hollering catcalls in front of the White House and getting up in the morning to go make a living.

Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.

I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

People are frustrated. They're fed up. They don't think the government is working for them.

Congress is best viewed from a distance - the farther the better - because up close, it is truly ugly.

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

I think we are all exhausted by, and sick of, Donald Trump.