Jane Byrne Quotes

Most things don't work like they are supposed to work.

I had rapidly become aware there were problems with the Kalifa group.

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.

This system isn't working.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Government is dysfunctional.

Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

Old mismanagement is no excuse for the continuance of it.

Street lights, dog-doo and parking meters are not my cup of tea.

Our string has run out. There is nothing more we can do.

The instruments of state prove too big to do the small things and too small to do the big things.

In a day when you don't come across any problems — you can be sure that you are traveling in the wrong path.

… minor incidents—the kind you can never really foresee—combine to lower the general level of performance, so that one always falls short of the intended goal.

Currently, it was leading him through a neighborhood that was on the downside of whatever curve you hoped you'd bought your property on the upside of. Graffiti and garbage were everywhere here. They were everywhere in the city, if it came to that, but elsewhere the garbage was better quality, and the graffiti was close to being correctly spelled. The whole area was waiting for something to happen, like a really bad fire.

Hillary Clinton's been talking about the inner cities for 25 years. Nothing's going to ever happen.

Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building.

I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

In Chicago 3,000 people have been shot since January 1st. We're not going to let that happen. Our inner cities are almost at an all-time low, run by the Democrats for sometimes more than a hundred years, chain unbroken.