Unaccountable Leadership Quotes

Asking for a royally appointed prime minister is undemocratic. It is, pardon me, a mess. It is irrational.

Invisible government

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

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.

There are no necessary evils in government. It's evils exist only in its abuses.

Government screws up.

We were falling deeper and deeper into a secret running of the government.

The biggest drawback to democracy, he explained, is that elected representatives may not consider good governance their objective and may seek to usurp the electoral process in order to satisfy their own interests—and this unfortunately tarnishes the democratic ideal.

What typically happens in government is the exact opposite of how things should work.

I believe the election and reelection of Obama were among the most conspicuous acts of denial in recent years. Voters just stopped paying attention. They accepted consistently bad behavior and rewarded it. Then they wonder why they get more bad behavior.

Parliamentarianism is nauseating to anyone who has ever seen it at close range.

Statistically, a “normal” human being in today’s world is poor, lives in oppressive physical, social, and political conditions, and is ruled by unresponsive and corrupt government.

Allowing staff to dictate frameworks and policy outcomes without appropriate checks by elected leaders has corrosive effects.

The people will demand answers from all the dictators and the people who have not allowed this country to function.

Russia's leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power.

In Belarus, the government is a kind of presidential monarchy with no checks, no balances, and no rule of law.

If a king goes astray the common people pay for the sin.

The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.

I don't trust a system where Putin makes all decisions.

… political adventurers who have never done anything but pose and draw a salary.

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

It's unbearable to see the people betrayed time and again by politicians who don't keep their promises and by the technocrats at the European Union.

It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people.

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.