Inefficient Government Quotes

#1. It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the books. Small government and the death penalty don't go together.

Christy Clark

#2. The worst thing the federal government could do is to increase the size, reach and cost of government. If government failed in its response to the hurricane, the answer is not more inefficient government.

Cal Thomas

#3. Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.

Bernard DeVoto

#4. All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.

Murray Rothbard

#5. Government on its own is always inefficient.

James Lankford

#6. When the Champions League is at stake, ... you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the opposition off.

Jamie Carragher

#7. Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

P. J. O'Rourke

#8. When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.

Henry Hazlitt

#9. If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.

Harvey Milk

#10. Mark Twain once opined in his homey way: "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Dan Simmons

#11. A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.

Dambisa Moyo

#12. Don't let other people's opinions distort your reality. Be true to yourself. Be bold in pursuing your dreams. Be unapologetically you!

Steve Maraboli

#13. No centralized government, no matter how big, how smart or how powerful, can effectively and efficiently control much of society in a beneficial way. On the contrary, big governments are inherently inefficient and harmful.

Charles Koch

#14. Sure, they all have iPods, smartphones, whatever. Generally speaking, it's in our own best interest to keep some kind of electronic device in their hands. Otherwise they might talk to us.

Lisa Gardner

#15. Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

Charley Reese

#16. A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

Annie Besant

#17. You would never argue about a straight girl playing a lesbian. Everybody still watched 'The L Word.' I feel like we have such great role models, like Jane Lynch and Jodie Foster and all these people that you don't even think about.

Kirsten Vangsness

#18. My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.

Tony Campolo

#19. Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job.

James Cook

#20. It's much better to become a Buddha than a Buddhist.

Jack Kornfield

#21. Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.

Marvin Minsky

#22. Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a government agency than to compete in the open market.

Charles Koch

#23. The only thing greater than the power of the mind is the courage of the heart

John Nash

#24. If you give your body a choice, it will always take the easy way out. Your body lies. It tells you it cannot when it can.

Matthew Kelly

#25. Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace.

Robert Graves