Political Dysfunction Quotes

Congress has been reformed so much that it can't get anything done.

Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'

Political paralysis and partisanship are sabotaging American power.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

Every thing in Congress revolves around the campaign—to hell with the country.

The candidacy of Donald Trump is the open sewer of American conservatism.

I think what Americans need and what Mainers need more than anything is government that functions and I think that the filibuster prevents us from functioning and making progress on issues.

Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.

No party is as bad as its state and national leaders.

The corporate takeover of America pre-dates Trump and it will outlast him. This president has revealed the rot of America. He has made it worse. It will take more than ousting him to fix it.

Populists feed on democratic dysfunction. As long as democratic elites and institutions in advanced industrial democracies remain unable or unwilling to tackle the myriad challenges facing their societies, we should expect populism to remain an attractive political option.

Our citizens do not know whom to believe, and many of them have concluded that all the processes of government have become so compromised that honest government has been rendered impossible.

We’re blessed here in Florida with a group of politicians who for the most part are putzes.

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

The public good is being compromised in the conflicts between our rival political parties.

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Many good people serve in Congress. They are patriotic, hard-working, and devoted to the public good as they see it, but the institutional and cultural impediments to change frustrate the intentions of these well-meaning people as rarely before.

The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.

Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally.

Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.

Influence, power and money have invaded our political process …. If we leave it to the politicians, it is unlikely that anything will be done.

We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents the people. The courts do not practice justice any more. The armies never stop playing at being the policemen of the world and of oil.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.