Chaotic Governance Quotes

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

There is no human-resources training for how to respond when you work for an unpredictable president. It's perhaps fitting that when you visit the website of the White House Office of Administration it says, 'Check back soon for more information.'

We've got a wild man in the White House [Lyndon Johnson], and we are going to have to treat him as such.

Our government is a little more chaotic than most other governments in the world.

We have no leadership, no captain at the helm as it were. We are, in effect, being led from disaster to disaster by a headless horseman run amok with stuffed pockets and an empty conscience.

Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government deliberations.

Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows.

In India the government is very chaotic and poorly run. They are forced into action by public pressure. When it's a larger event, there's a lot more pressure - to do something, to investigate, to give some kind of compensation to the victims. With the smaller attacks, the pain is concentrated on those affected, because they've not just been forgotten by everyone else, which is normal, they've also been forgotten by the government, which lets the cases drag on for years in the courts.

The people who control America today make decisions like drunkards. They do not understand what they are doing at all.

Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything.