Gennadi I. Gerasimov Quotes

The people are fed up with politics and partisanship.

Feinstein doesn't interact with the people at all, and I think it breeds cynicism.

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

The people are way ahead of the Congress. They are way ahead of the administration.

The instruments of state prove too big to do the small things and too small to do the big things.

Getting the U. S. Government to do anything is like herding ducks with a broom.

If you put government in charge of a desert, soon there will be a shortage of sand.

Washington isn't utterly dysfunctional.

There is a disconnect between Arkansas and Washington, D.C. The career politicians in Washington are not listening to people here in Arkansas, and this is the fundamental problem with politics.

The major functions of the government are … operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

In a free society, the ‘vision thing’ is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a ‘visionary’ bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government... the poorer and less free the people.

What is decided must be implemented and implemented without any departmental interpretation

The bureaucracy needs to do more than one thing at a time. It’s appropriate to save people with helicopters, but it can’t be done to the exclusion of everything else.

There are many ways for the Federal bureaucracy to undermine the leadership of the nation.

Sometimes we're tone-deaf in Washington, and we listen only to ourselves. We do not hear the cry of people who want answers, want action, want protection, and have some darn good ideas as to how to provide it if only we would listen.

The government generally is just too top-heavy.

Government on its own is always inefficient.

I understand firsthand that Washington is broken.

I thought I was going to go into politics, but that became disheartening. You see that a lot of stuff doesn't get done, people walk around all self-important, and it's just depressing.

I've seen the government up close and personal, and for the most part, it's inefficient and hidebound, and it stifles creativity in any industry it clutches within its well-meaning but slimy tentacles.

Whether you're a veteran or a millennial, it's hard to argue that big government has solved your problems efficiently, if at all.

The government - they're completely useless.

I think a lot of people feel that they are just not listened to, and that the politicians in Washington are just playing games with each other and forgetting about their constituents.

First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?