Gina Raimondo Quotes

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

I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.

Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.

Congress has lost its capacity to manage itself.

The nation's chronic weakness is its political system, which is nearing dysfunction. If the U.S. can elect better political leadership, it should be able to manage problems better than most competitors.

We are strong country with weak leadership.

Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government deliberations.

Our political system seems to be proving itself almost incapable of dealing with what's been put before it. The decisions it is making, or fluffing, are so vital and yet are inevitably so compromised by the endless political calculations of all involved.

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.

I can personally testify that American politics have taken a distinctly downward turn in the space of one mature lifetime.

Incivility is not the disease. It is the symptom. Partisanship is the disease…. When your highest duty is to your party, the public interest becomes subservient.

The function of government is to direct the physical and moral powers of the nation toward the end for which the commonwealth has come into being.

If we permit ourselves to be ill served, to be served by corrupt and incompetent and inefficient men, then on our own head must the blame rest.

Division and the death of hope. These are the results of Republican rule.

The positions taken by the Solicitor General for years have carried a special weight with the Supreme Court because they are regarded as representing not merely the political interests of the Administration but the broad interests of the nation.

Washington has become a place where good ideas come to die.

Every thing in Congress revolves around the campaign—to hell with the country.

Republicans hate government ... So they let us Democrats run it for them.

The job of government is to govern. They ought to get on with it.

The question today is not whether the government is too small or too small, but whether or not it works