J. K. Rowling Quotes

We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.

Civil servants who tell the truth are fired and those who are incompetent are retained.

Modi is a disgrace to the prime minister's post.

Karnataka was known for its good governance. After the BJP came to power, they laid the foundation for bad administration.

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

Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they do not need citing; 2) excessive ambition, such as Athens' attempted conquest of Sicily in the Peloponnesian War, Philip II's of England via the Armada, Germany's twice-attempted rule of Europe by a self-conceived master race, Japan's bid for an empire of Asia; 3) incompetence or decadence, as in the case of the late Roman empire, the last Romanovs and the last imperial dynasty of China; and finally 4) folly or perversity.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Some people are in positions of power, and when incentives go haywire, we are all human and it's easy to make mistakes. I am not saying everybody is Bernie Madoff.

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

See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

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

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.

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.

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

Our representatives are betrayers of the people.

In Mexico, the people who are put in jail are all the wrong people. The good people are in jail.

As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort—as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.

The people are good; the government is not good.

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

Some governments are corrupt but are known for their competency in running the city. Others are incompetent but are considered "clean." [Washington] DC's government is scandalously corrupt and hopelessly incompetent.

The world will go on much as it did before; and be always quite bad enough to allow bribery and corruption, jobbery and nepotism, quackery and arrogance, their full influence over our home and foreign policy.