Unresponsive Leadership Quotes

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people

Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say

An opposition that won't oppose paralyses our political and democratic system.

Feinstein doesn't interact with the people at all, and I think it breeds cynicism.

Unfortunately, even during a pandemic we've seen a process in Washington that makes no sense for the needs of Mainers.

Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country.

Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.

We have bureaucracy that doesn't really understand what the people want.

We wish to avoid at all costs the recurrent experience in some democratic countries where the people give the governments the opposition

Our government has failed us. From the billion-dollar bailouts to the 'stimulus' package that failed to stimulate to the government takeover of health care, you cried 'Stop!'... but the Democratic Majority in Washington has refused to listen.

But, as we've seen over the last several months, the people in this country are very dissatisfied with the direction that this administration is taking this country. And what we heard last night was absolutely the ignoring of that fact. It was: We're going to continue with this agenda. In fact, we're going to double down on healthcare.

Indian polity has failed to provide solutions to the common man's problems.

There is little incentive for initiative just now: the [State] Department seems to take no interest; we never receive comments on our work and many of our questions go unanswered.

All corporatism - even when practiced in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.