Government Complexity Quotes

As entrepreneurs, we sometimes do not understand the complexities of running a government.

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

Running a democratic country is one of the most difficult things for any government.

Bureaucrats want you to think that the system is too complex because they want you to be stupid about it and uninterested in it. They work very hard to create as many levels as possible away from the simplistic government our Founding Fathers formed for one simple reason: they don't want you to know what they are doing.

It actually turns out to be much harder to really understand government across state local and federal.

Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?

The increasing complexity of the Executive Branch is mirrored by the size of the cabinet.

You have to understand government and you have to understand how hard it is.

There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.

I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought.

Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three great provinces—the legislative, executive, and judiciary; or even the privileges and powers of the different legislative branches. Questions daily occur in the course of practice which prove the obscurity which reigns in these subjects, and which puzzle the greatest adepts in political science.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

When we consider that this government is charged with the external and mutual relations only of these states; that the states themselves have principal care of our persons, our property, and our reputation, constituting the great field of human concerns, we may well doubt whether our organization is not too complicated, too expensive; whether offices or officers have not been multiplied unnecessarily, and sometimes injuriously to the service they were meant to promote.

It's impossible always to be with the majority in coalition government, especially when it's a very complicated coalition.