Political Disarray Quotes

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

The Democratic party is really just a giant day care center for squabbling little groups.

Politicians are never going to turn this country around. Our country's a mess. The politicians are going to destroy this country. They're weak and they're ineffective.

The biggest loser in 2016 was Washington, D.C.

Sena under the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray has failed. It is a party on the decline, and that decline started the day Maharashtra Navnirman Sena was formed.

We now have political chaos. We've got parties in Ireland saying they want to merge with Northern Ireland. You've got parties in Scotland saying you want to leave the U.K. You've got the Spanish government saying it would like to take ownership of Gibraltar, which is a British overseas territory... So just the politics of this is a mess.

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

The Republicans are... there is a small [Donald] Trump remnant, which is going over the cliff right now.

Here lies the body of the Republican party — Corrupt, and generally speaking, hearty.

Under Mr. Corbyn, Labour are a shambles.

Since last year, our politics have become very anxiety-ridden, and President Xi is facing passive resistance across the country. There is widespread inaction from local elites and local governments. Nobody opposes, but nobody does anything.

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

The media are so key in a national emergency, especially when opposition parties in the U.K. are - let us say - largely in disarray, even leaderless.

After one party loses two elections in a row, there's sort of blood in the water.

The French Socialist Party is not merely dying, but it is already dead.

The Tory party is like a rugby union match in which all 30 players are wearing the same strip. They're not sure who they are grabbing round the knees, but they're having a lot of fun doing it.

I've spent my life in the Republican party, it gives me no pleasure to say this. This party has demonstrated a complete incapacity to govern. Period.

Did you ever wonder who when our problems are getting larger and larger, out politicians are getting smaller and smaller?

Newt Gingrich is road kill on the highway of American politics.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in 'array' as far as political purposes were concerned.

Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed the same way - and misread the mood, which is all there is, really, because being crazy and stupid is all we're really good at politically any more.

I look at the state of the American politics and I scratch my head in wonder. How can the Republican Party, any party, have fallen into to such a state of self-destructiveness - self-destructive stupidity? How is it possible? I don't know. It's an absolute mystery to me.

To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.