Poor Governance Quotes
Not all kings were uncaring aristocrats and a few were excellent, compassionate, rulers. Most were not however.
What makes this quotation memorable is that fact that it was public stated. Presidents have almost never gone into a local area and publicly stated that one of its governmental institutions was corrupt. Moreover, the corruption had not only gone on with the laxity of the state and city officials who had been Republicans and of the President’s own party—Democrats. The speech was, surprisingly to some, very warmly received by a public and political audience who had known of the corruption for years, but finally someone was trying to do something about it.
The inspiration and first Supreme Leader of the theocracy of Iran ordered many Iranians machine gunned or executed on other ways for various sexual offenses where arguably he did a good job of enforcing Islamic Law. However, he made a mess of the economy—one of the many areas about which he was very ignorant had had no desire to learn about. See {635611} for an example of his preoccupation with sex in national policy making.
