Jed Mercurio Quotes

The moral fiber of the American people is beset by rot and decay

Morality of society has deteriorated so much due to the government's bad policy of selling office positions

Karnataka was known for its good governance. After the BJP came to power, they laid the foundation for bad administration.

We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.

Having found, from experience, that impeachment is an impracticable thing, a mere scare-crow, they consider themselves secure for life; they skulk from responsibility to public opinion.

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.

… the intersection of ideology and incompetence.

How the hell can you expect those guys to catch spies when they can't smell the stink under their own noses?

It's hard to tell whether [Attorney General] Janet Reno is engaged in a cover-up or she's merely incompetent.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of Rome’s decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.

… a degeneracy of representation in the great council of America .… Many members of it are no doubt men in every respect, fit for the trust, but this cannot be said of it as a body. Folly, caprice a want of foresight, comprehension and dignity, characterize the general tenor of their actions…. Their conduct with respect to the army especially is feeble indecisive and improvident

At a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility; at worst, lying, incompetence and corruption.

The carelessness and negligence of the governments of the world, which wholly intent upon the care of aggrandizing themselves, at the same time neglect the happiness of the people and with it their own peace and security.

Think for a moment of what this patronage system means. How many of you are there who would be willing to do to your private client, or customer, or any private trust, or to a friend or neighbor, what you see being done to the State of New York every year of your lives in the taking of money out of her treasury without service?

Political leaders, elected by the public and vested with the power to shape public life, owe it to citizens to set better standards regarding their use of money, and their conduct, both in and out of office.

Russia is corrupt, treacherous, shifty and incompetent.

The State Department is the kind of organization which though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

The Cancer Society here in Nova Scotia is doing nothing, and money is being wasted. I would love to get my hands on the people in Halifax.

The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government.

All you got to do is look around. This country's getting worse and worse and more and more immoral, and we're rotting from within.