Government Malfeasance Quotes

When the legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.

Good men and women come to Washington and get caught in a culture of corruption.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.

Was there ever such a bare-faced corruption in any country before?

State and local government are more corrupt and less efficient than the federal government.

How can we account for our present situation unless we believe that men high in this government are concerting to deliver us to disaster? This must be the product of a great conspiracy on a scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man.

Evidence that has surfaced has cast a black cloud of distrust over our entire society. Our citizens do not know whom to believe, and many of them have concluded that all the processes of government have become so compromised that honest government has been rendered impossible.

The establishment of Washington is utterly corrupt and is incapable of governing.

As for the Ministers, the Devil take them!

The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.

Either an unsuspecting stooge or an actual co-conspirator with the most treasonable array of political cutthroats ever turned loose in the Executive Branch of Government.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

I was a guy who trusted the government. Now, I don't trust a damn thing they do.

For the people who are offended about the fact that we have a bunch of criminals and criminal enablers and buffoons and scheisters and con men and frauds and real estate frauds running our country and our government, they like to hear that they're not the only ones that feel that way.

I know that it would not shock you to discover that this isn’t the first time that Congress and the regulatory agencies did not act in the public interest.

We have seen a degradation from the highest levels of authority politically in this nation, including through the department of justice, for the rule of law.

Corruption at every level, city, state, federal, all has helped in making New Orleans a disaster area, the most disappearing land mass on the planet Earth.

The United States has entered the ranks of the failed states. One of the most remarkable manifestations of a failed state is that the criminals are all inside the government operating against the people, whereas in a normal state, the criminals are on the outside of the government, operating against it. So, we now have every manifestation of being a failed state, with the government in the hands of a few Wall Street gangsters.

One reason you tend to doubt conspiracy theories when you've worked in government is because you know government is not nearly competent enough to carry off elaborate theories

We live at a time when people do not have much trust in government.

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.