ineffective government Quotes

History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting the delaration of independence and only realized on July 3rd the Articles were also due.

Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy.

[Barack Obama] says that he thinks America felt better, more confident, because Washington was not simply in a gridlock, in stasis, where nothing was being done. And he talks about that as a positive.

Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.

I don't think we can depend on Congress. In the American political system - we have been brought up to believe that the American political system works beautifully; it is democratic; Congress represents us; the President is elected, he represents us - it doesn't work that way.

Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described as positive and beneficial measures.

Curtailment of expense could be effected only on the principle that as the government did nothing well, it might as well do nothing.

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

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance.

Politicians in Washington are useless.

Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.

I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15 years before I really woke up to the fact that almost everything government attempts to do, it makes worse.

Washington is not good at getting things done.

America is fed up with political correctness, and it is fed up with government that doesn't work. It's fed up with weakness being interpreted as wisdom.

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.

When you have a gutless Congress a lawless president can do pretty much what he chooses.