Political Inefficiency Quotes

The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than almost anything outside the realm of pure science.

We've had some Presidents who were pretty lazy.

You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.

I know something. America is not broken, Washington, D.C. is broken.

Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.

Our Congress makes the UN look efficient by comparison

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

The common man is sick of rising prices, growing corruption, lack of jobs, and on various other counts. They know that the United Progressive Alliance government led by Dr. Manmohan Singh is not capable of delivering, and hence, they want to get rid of this government.

Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government.

The [Donald] Trump transition team is already functioning as the worst transition team we have ever seen. And the good news is the slower they do their work, the better off we are.

No one understands the dysfunctions and debilitating impact of America's political system in the swamp better than Mark Melcher and Steve Soukup.

[The American people] would rather invest in themselves than listen to a bunch of people in Washington who do not have a record of fixing anything.

What in the world had Grover Cleveland done? Will you tell me? You give it up? I have been looking for six weeks for a Democrat who could tell me what Cleveland has done for the good of his country and for the benefit of the people, but I have not found him.... He says himself...that two-thirds of his time has been uselessly spent with Democrats who want office.... Now he has been so occupied in that way that he has not done anything else.

What most surprises me about Brazil is the extent of the difficulties that we create for ourselves. We create a lot of legislation to control the Brazilian state itself, that this ends up meaning that things don't go with the speed any head of government would like.

In its early days, Trump's presidency ought to be viewed as the arduous start to the complicated task of draining the Washington swamp.

Over the years, our political system has degenerated to the extent that it is difficult for anyone to make any headway yet keep his hands clean.

To me the political game did not at all seem to answer the needs of the time.

Washington is not good at getting things done.

The government never does anything successfully.

Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Politicians in Italy seem to spend so much time giving interviews, they don't have time to make the laws.

Most of the energy devoted to political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

The State Department is essentially... I was going to use the word useless. But I don't know if that's correct.

Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.