Political Mismanagement Quotes

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.

The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to age, by the most ignorant and vicious of the human race. Need we any other proof of their wretched management, than the excess of debts and taxes with which every nation groans, and the quarrels into which they have precipitated the world?"

But people turn on their televisions. They turn on their televisions and they see what's happening in Iraq. The American people are not stupid. And the one thing they understand, they understand how incredibly mismanaged and bungled this war has been by the civilians in this administration. And - I mean, you can't paper over that, any more than you can paper over Katrina.

If there was an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating, this administration would take the gold. World records for violations of national and international laws. They want another four-year term to continue to alienate our allies, spend our children's inheritance and hollow out our economy. We can't afford another Republican administration.

I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

The focus on male politicians extends beyond clothes, legs, and pretty faces. It's hard to find an article about former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich that doesn't mention his mop.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

We need a Skilled India but Congress has created a Scam India in the last 10 years.

The history of the world is the story of people getting off track.

Everything the Bushites touch is screwed up.

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

We can't forever be spending our lives paying for political follies that never gave us anything but always took from us, and I amcontent with the narrowest metes and bounds provided I have peace and quiet for work.

Whenever you come across a screw-up this big, you know the government is behind it.

Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place.

I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.

The Bush administration has now provided three case studies in arrogance, isolation and destructiveness: Michael Brown during Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador Jerry Bremer in Baghdad and Secretary Paulson at Treasury. It is a tragic and very expensive legacy. No conservative and no Republican should doubt how much it has hurt our cause and our party.