Failed Governance Quotes

Russia is corrupt, treacherous, shifty and incompetent.

Socialism has been an abject failure across the face of the globe, millions have suffered under socialism, and yet we're not doing an effective job communicating that.

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed.

We are worried that rebels are taking control in many countries, and look at the results now. Are you satisfied as an American ? What are the results ? Nothing. Very bad - nothing good.

Politics, as a body, has failed the people.

Bush is an incompetent leader. As a matter of fact he is no leader at all.

When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for years in a war with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness, and when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration - then it's time for new leadership for the United States of America.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

Africa's downfall has always been the cult of the personality. And their names always seem to begin with M. We've had Mobutu and Mengistu and I'm not going to add Meles to the list.

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

I don't think anybody has ever been able to live up to what they promised. I don't know a government that has ever been successful at that because once they get into power, things change and the world is controlled also by business now.

The State of Alabama let me down tremendously.

We have no leadership, no captain at the helm as it were. We are, in effect, being led from disaster to disaster by a headless horseman run amok with stuffed pockets and an empty conscience.

Some failed states have no one but themselves—or rather their corrupt or brutal political elites—to blame. Others never had a chance to start with…, trapped between a no-longer-usable past and a not-yet-accessible future.

None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at.

Donald Trump is talking about the failed leadership of the Obama Administration.

Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

Our anti-corruption systems have inherently and intently been kept flawed.

How is it that we can entrust the solutions for the problems that confront our country today to those who are complicit in their creation?

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

The political class has failed you.

You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.'