Dysfunctional System Quotes

Our leaders are stupid. Our politicians are stupid.

Washington D.C. has become a lunatic asylum.

Has Washington become so dysfunctional that even when we all agree on something, we can’t get it done?

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of government.

The establishment of Washington is utterly corrupt and is incapable of governing.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.

Government is dysfunctional.

It reminded me of a meat grinder. From when I was a kid. Going to school it felt like you were in a meat grinder. It chews you up and pours out this mess that can't function

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

In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.

Washington is broken.

Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.

There's an awful lot about our criminal justice system that is dysfunctional. Everyone who sets foot in a criminal courtroom will see myriad ways the system is dysfunctional.

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

The wheels of compromise lose traction as Congress sinks into an ooze of dysfunction.

The functioning of our society is in a certain way sclerotic.

The incentives are still rotten, and people are still paid to do things they shouldn't be doing. The reforms did not really address the incentives, the system is still dysfunctional and there are still behavioural issues that need to be addressed.

Most Russian programs and policies had had just the opposite effect of what was intended. The reason is hyper-centralization of power.

[Characterizing Washington DC:] It's some sort of incestuous insane asylum where they just keep saying the same thing.

The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only goal is to multiply itself, unaware that it is bringing about its own destruction by destroying the organism of which it is a part.

The people in Iowa know that Washington isn't working. It's devolved into partisan politics and a lot of gridlock and obstruction.

Reforms to our complex and dysfunctional immigration system should not in any way favor those who came here illegally over the millions of applicants who seek to come here lawfully. Additionally, the framework carves out a special exception for agricultural workers that has little justification.

Where incompetence is prized, it is ever-present.