Quotes about Government Turmoil

David Letterman

Iraq is so bad that President Obama phoned Hillary Clinton and asked her if she could start early.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Our government is a little more chaotic than most other governments in the world.

Bernardo O'Higgins

I know nothing of these torturous arts by which a man may aspire to govern a state torn by envy, parties, and factions. This evil is almost always unavoidable in newly fledged governments, which must look to themselves for sustenance and growth

The newly independent South American nations all had terrible problems and although leaders like O’Higgins were democratic by instinct and desire, they had to use non democratic means to survive and keep the governments even functioning. The factions were more than just different political parties but private armies controlled by warlords. See {584187}.

Bob Livingston

We’ve got to stop this. This is crazy. We’re about to impeach the President of the United States.

Livingston could not stop the process, which had built up a momentum of its own among most Republicans. The debate went on, and, despite public opinion favoring the President, on a highly partisan party line vote Clinton was impeached by the house. The impeachment, only the second in U. S. history, then failed in the Senate.

Olympe de Gouges

The Ministers are like a flotilla broken up by a hurricane, the stricken ships run into each other, crash together and if they reach the port there is always a leader to blame, at least so it is believed. If a good Minister for one moment takes his eye off the tiller he is lost; envy clings on to his wreckage and the paid hacks try and sink him to the bottom.

Molly Ivins

Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.

Victor Davis Hanson

I think people are beating each other up in the halls of Congress, as they did in the late 1850s.

Mark Shields

The people working in the administration of this president [Donald Trump] do not know from day to day whether their job exists of what it is.

Joseph Smith Jr.

Our nation, which possesses greater resources than any other, is rent, from center to circumference, with party strife, political intrigues, and sectional interest; our counselors are panic stricken, our legislators are astonished, and our senators are confounded.

Government Turmoil Quotes