Political Ineffectiveness Quotes

There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.

The politicians are all useless individuals. Nobody is reducing the problems in the U.S. or Europe, just putting on a Band-Aid and postponing the problems endlessly.

The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't believe things can really change. It doesn't matter who's president. Nothing really gets resolved. I don't know. I guess that's not the right attitude to take.

Can I take on the Republican Party machine? Get real. No. Zero percent.

Congress is more broken than ever. Congressman Will Hurd has quickly become part of the problem.

Politicians are never going to turn this country around. Our country's a mess. The politicians are going to destroy this country. They're weak and they're ineffective.

Horse-and-Carriage diplomacy, like governance by crowned heads selected by accident of birth, proved wholly inadequate to address a crisis of the Electric Age.

Political experience is political inefficacy.

I loathe all political parties, which I regard as inventions of the devil. My favourite prime minister was Sir Alec Douglas-Home, not because he was on the Right, but because he spent a year in office without, on his own admission, doing a damned thing.

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

Just look at the past. Hillary Clinton is done nothing. She's been there for 35 years. She's done nothing.

Politicians in Washington are useless.

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

The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out.

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

You'll never change anything in this country through voting. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

The seventh year is always a big problem for [political] executives. Programs that were initiated with promise show they have been inadequate or failed. The majesty of the office is diminished by familiarity. People find out you're just like the other guys.

Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.

I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have.

I just don't think our best are in politics. I think these guys are inept.

The fact that cultures are failing all over the world means that they don't know how to operate a society to make it work. Politicians have no real knowledge of technology; therefore, they are not capable of increasing food production, designing transportations systems that are safe… They have no knowledge in that area. Therefore it's senseless to talk to them about anything of significance.

Members of the public would be forgiven for thinking that it is MPs who are lazy and that it is parliament that is failing to provide good value for money.

Did you ever wonder who when our problems are getting larger and larger, out politicians are getting smaller and smaller?

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

We have to put America's security first. The American people - we on this stage need to open our ears. We need to open our ears. The American people are not whispering to us. They are screaming to us. And they're screaming to us that it's our job to actually make this government work.It's so dysfunctional under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. It's so ineffective. It's so ineffectual that the American people say, we don't trust them to do anything anymore. So I'm not going to let Syrian refugees, any Syrian refugees in this country.