Government Blame Quotes

The government and the Party are always blaming the comrades doing local work but never themselves, always seeing their own achievements but never their own shortcomings, and always welcoming flattery but never criticism....

The treachery of [General William] Hull, like that of [Benedict] Arnold, cannot be a matter of blame for our government.

Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.

Most of our country's serious problems can be laid at the feet of Congress and the White House and not at capitalism.

Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.

If something happens to me, the government is co-responsible.

Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.

Politkovskaya was a known critic of the administration. For this reason, one cannot rule out the possibility that someone would want to blame the government for the murder.

They [the Americans] feel strongly the disgrace of having had their capital taken by a handful of men and blame very generally a government which went to war without the means or ability to carry it out.

There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day.

Even for natives, French satire is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Its unspoken punch line is typically that things have gone irrevocably wrong, and the government is to blame.

[from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr. Kaine for an excellent nonspecific condemnation, plus one bonus point for blaming the previous government and another for successfully mutating the question to promote the party line. Mr. van de Poste gets a point for a firm rebuttal, but only two points for his condemnation, as he tried to inject an impartial and intelligent observation.

Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go into government if you are lucky, do your best, aren't appreciated, take all the blame for policies for which you are only partly responsible, leave, realize your reputation has been damaged, maybe permanently.

The Tea Party elites believe government is evil. Everything about government is bad, and they blame all problems, even non-economic problems, problems that were caused by the private sector, on government.

This traditionally happens in Russia and in every other undemocratic country as well - the quest for a scapegoat won't be long, either. The easiest way to find a scapegoat is to ascribe that role to former governments.