Government Ineffectiveness Quotes

It is fascinating to watch politicians come up with 'solutions' to problems that are a direct result of their previous solutions. In many cases, the most efficient thing to do would be to repeal their previous solution and stop being so gung-ho for creating new solutions in the future. But, politically, that is the last thing they will do.

We are strong country with weak leadership.

What I'm saying is that government doesn't work for people. There is a perception of it and a reality of it.

There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.

Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world.

I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it.

Donald Trump could win the presidency without a popular-vote majority only because both parties have been locked into base-turnout strategies that are partially responsible for our government's ineffectiveness and gridlock.

Most people don't realize, I really have no faith in politics. I'm not a politician. If I thought you could change human hearts by laws, I would, but I don't.

Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

The Republicans are the party that says that government doen't work, and then they get elected and prove it.

Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.

The government - they're completely useless.

Nobody really believes any more that government delivers.

The illegitimacy rate is going up every year. If you expect a government program to change that, you know more about government programs than I do.

People have no confidence that Washington, both sides of aisle, are coming together to try and do what's right for the economy.

Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by the citizens.

I have rarely seen the government do anything that was effective.

Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.

Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.

We believe - most polls indicate - a lack of support, a lack of confidence in the ability of the Congress to work. That is disturbing in terms of our general democracy.

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

Our political system has been bankrupted by the failures of Congress to act in ways that give meaning to the struggles our constituents endure.

The government was unable to avert or to control the course of events.

The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago.

[In America] there is no end to the laws and no beginning to the execution of them.