Lev Grossman Quotes

It is better to be without a king than to have a bad one.

Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now.

In this administration, a place can be found for every bad man.

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

We live in a time of mediocre leadership—political and intellectual.

Wretched Castile, yesterday the ruler wrapped in rags and scorning all it does not know.

I feel smothered as I suffer at being governed by uneducated and ignorant leaders.

Poverty, and material and moral misery, are everywhere. There is little to cheer us. Unfortunately, this is the true state of the country. It’s not our fault: unthinking rulers, ignorant of the way of the world, have run this country for years, not to say centuries, and reduced a paradise to this sorry state. Most of our officials are inexperienced and at a loss. Our poor people have ability, but they have fallen under the influence of superstitions which have been presented as sacred dogma.

Tyranny, Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.

The foundation of all government is the trust reposed by the people in their governors. At present that confidence is entirely extinguished. Complaints are universal and all the complaints fall upon the Prince .… The nation sees that the Prince did not make proper use of the power given to him. Those persons who almost brought down the state are still in office; they and their allies are well received by the Prince, some continue in the same improper manner as in the days of the earlier anarchy.

Poor governance affects us all - entrepreneurs, homemakers, farmers, labourers, whatever identities we might have.

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

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership.

We're being taken advantage of because we have leaders who are incompetent. They don't even know. When I went out and told them you know in their trade deal they didn't even discuss the devaluation, they didn't even discuss it. At least they started discussing it, only because of me.

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.

A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

If we had leaders that knew what they were doing, which we don't.

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

Dishonesty plus economic ignorance equals California government.

out of sight,out of mind

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.