Michael Badnarik Quotes

This President [George W. Bush] is a miserable failure.

Obviously, I believe that Rahm Emanuel's leadership has failed. Obviously, I believe we need change.

Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

For his failures, Rumsfeld must go!

Government does not have basic business sense.

If you put government in charge of a desert, soon there will be a shortage of sand.

Jayalalitha has turned out to be a failure as chief minister.

Government schools can go for decades delivering low-quality services, and what's the result? The people who manage it earn higher pay. It's nearly impossible to fire the incompetents. And, taxpayers, who support the service, are given higher tax bills.

Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.

Dishonesty plus economic ignorance equals California government.

Salazar's record is one of weakness; he hasn't been a good attorney general.

We're on our way to Greece, in the hands of a confused, foolish government. It's got to stop. It's got to stop.

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.

Most Russian programs and policies had had just the opposite effect of what was intended. The reason is hyper-centralization of power.

Most of the energy devoted to political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

[Referring to the Pentagon:] It's a mammoth place that makes an incredible number of mistakes.

We have government by the clueless, over a place they’ve never been, using means they don’t possess.

Politician is a term of reproach.

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

Everything the Bushites touch is screwed up.

I have found in my years of working in the government than when I face a choice of explanations of venality or incompetence in explaining some government activities, it is almost always incompetence that explains it. It often appears to be venality because we do not realize how incompetent government and large private organizations can be sometimes.

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

Obama is a fine, very impressive person. He really is. Unfortunately, everything that he is doing in economics is exactly wrong. He is a crappy president.