Abhijit Banerjee Quotes

Washington is a cesspool of non-accountability.

Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.

It's hard to tell whether [Attorney General] Janet Reno is engaged in a cover-up or she's merely incompetent.

I never will ascribe to this government [Liberal Party] such wrongdoing as mere stupidity will explain.

At a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility; at worst, lying, incompetence and corruption.

The whole of your political conduct has been one continued series of weakness, temerity, despotism, ignorance, futility, negligence, blundering, and the most notorious senility, incapacity, and corruption.

I knew where people were sleeping in the hallways, you know, instead of doing their job. I knew what systems weren't working.

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

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

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

Awareness without action is worthless.

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.

Delay has the odor of the Beltway.

The perfect bureaucrat … is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

If we permit ourselves to be ill served, to be served by corrupt and incompetent and inefficient men, then on our own head must the blame rest.

The Russian spirit, wedded as it is to the idea of uniformity, cannot achieve genuine order. The nature of its government is interference, negligence and corruption.