Bad Government Quotes

Experience shows that the most dangerous moment for a bad government is usually just as its starting on reform.

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

I think that most people who complain about our government have no idea what they're talking about because they've never been to a country with a bad government.

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.

In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

Long live Religion, Long Live our Most Holy Mother of Guadalupe. Long Live Ferdinand VII. Long Live America and death to bad government.

The value of democracy lies in the fact that good or bad government has its roots in the localities where people know each other and where they account for their actions to their neighbors.

The government they devised was defective from the start.

A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

To what higher station, to what greater glory can any mortal aspire, than to be, during the whole course of his life, the support of good, the control of bad government, and the guardian of public liberty?

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

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

One thing my father said was that if you find yourself in a country where you have to carry papers, you know it has a lousy government.

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.