Dysfunction Quotes

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 old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

Political paralysis and partisanship are sabotaging American power.

Washington isn't utterly dysfunctional.

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

When it comes to the law enforcement coordination and intelligence sharing, not only does the left hand have no knowledge of what the right hand is doing, one hand does not even recognize that the other hand exists.

I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the partisanship, the gridlock, the pettiness, and the corruption.

To govern Italy is not only impossible, it is useless.

Nothing in Chicago seems to be working the way it’s supposed to.

Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.

When I was with the Bulls, I was very dysfunctional.

Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.

I think dysfunctional people are being funneled into very corporate behaviour. Look at the Brits... no one's fighting, and it's boring.

Dear God, in mercy and grace, prevent the Senate from being like Humpty Dumpty. Keep it from being so fractured and fragmented that no one will ever be able to put it together again.

You can still function as a living ruin.

In Washington, you have imaginary problems, and they can't even solve the imaginary problems.

Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.

my lungs sucked at being lungs.

We are living in dystopia, in a world that is dominated by technology and disconnect, alienation, loneliness, and dysfunction.

'Atlanta' is Wild West-y - every corner of the city is trying to get by under its own rules. There's no single narrative. At the outer edges, the overgrown parking lots and project blocks, the city is a few yards away from apocalypse, and if you slow down, it could engulf you.

Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.

Overall, Congress is dysfunctional, partisan, and polarized, and it isn’t getting anything done. We need commissions to break out of divisive partisanship.

I'd been staying at the Holiday Inn with my girlfriend, honestly the most beautiful woman I'd ever known, for three days under a phony name, shooting heroin. We made love in the bed, ate steaks at the restaurant, shot up in the john, puked, cried, accused one another, begged of one another, forgave, promised, and carried one another to heaven.