Bhavish Aggarwal Quotes

You have to understand government and you have to understand how hard it is.

Government is not an exact science.

In the old days the problems of government were few and political, now they are many and are economic and sociological ...

The size of government is not altogether that large in this country.

As a general rule, the United States government is run by lawyers who occasionally take advice from economists. Others interested in helping the lawyers out need not apply.

I don't have any insight or understanding on anything about the government. All I think is that it's stupid - which is the one perspective that's almost completely lacking in Washington.

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

Government is good at one thing. It knows how to cripple you and then hand you a crutch.

The shape and composition of the government is important. We haven't reached a point where politics and economics have been totally divorced from each other.

The government is a machinery manned by human beings.

One must realise that it is not a child's play to run a government.

Don't make government work like a business... it's inherently inefficient.

When you're in governance, you understand the limitations and the complexities of governance.

Government can’t deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch.

I ... can sniff out a bureaucracy when I see it coming [in new legislation.]

To balance a large state or society, whether monarchial or republican, on general laws, is a work of so great difficulty, that no human genius, however comprehensive, is able by the mere dint of reason and reflection, to effect it.

Governments are not like a business. They don’t look like a business, work like a business, think like a business, and they don’t have a bottom line.

Now we’re going to get big government.

The government’s role is to motivate the private sector, to assure that it performs in a way which serves the public interest.

The Internal Revenue Code is like a tire that has been patched over and over…. At this point however, it is more patch than tire.

That’s why the tax code is so long [76,000 pages]. So we can take advantage of it.

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats.

When you're going to pass legislation that will cover 300 [million] American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.

The government playing entrepreneur is not a good role for the government.