Quotes About Government Incompetence

#1. I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens.

Donald Trump

#2. There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will start ripping off the billions of dollars available in new contracts. Every single one of these stories is going to be a big one.

Brian Ross

#3. The theme that runs through my movies is the fact that we create barriers for ourselves ... because we say, Well, I can't do that. But in the end, you can't do it unless you can imagine yourself succeeding at it.

George Lucas

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

Carly Fiorina

#5. The price of loyalty is incompetence.

Jonathan Alter

#6. States that scrap their state-run Obamacare exchanges are admitting they've wasted millions of dollars in federal grants. It's only fair that states have to pay American taxpayers and the federal government back for their total incompetence.

John Barrasso

#7. We turn our attention to the government and we whine about the incompetence of the police, we also complain about the breakdown in law and order. Yet, we forget that we actually had a role to play in the consequences we are reaping.

Sunday Adelaja

#8. Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.

James Cook

#9. One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence.

Thomas Sowell

#10. Self Government by extravagance and incompetence brings its own end.

Will Durant

#11. Never underestimate the incompetence of government.

James Cook

#12. What the people out there are calling for is honesty which has been missing for quite some time now. We are tired of all the deceit and incompetence of this government.

Joseph Muscat

#13. If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you're rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

Robert Kiyosaki

#14. Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence.

Mike Barnicle

#15. Italy is a country which is willing to submit itself to the worst governments. It is, as we know, a country ruled by disorder, cynicism, incompetence and confusion. Nevertheless we are aware of intelligence circulating in the streets like a vivid bloodstream.

Natalia Ginzburg

#16. Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?

Thomas Love Peacock

#17. Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact their own incompetence as the rationale for giving them yet more power.

Josh Marshall

#18. Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.

Jim Babka

#19. For the ANC to cry 'sabotage' the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their incompetence and mismanagement.

Helen Zille

#20. There is a dedication to willful incompetence in many corporate government departments.

Steven Magee

#21. Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.

Michael Jackson

#22. We all have a role to play. Don't despair at your own talents... Don't try to be better than anybody else. Just try to be better than yourself

Edgar J. Steele

#23. As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and self-serving.

John Stossel

#24. There are many ways of inducing sleep
the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge fixed over a brass pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer much better than any of these succedaneums.

Laurence Sterne

#25. So many things come from people's parents lying to them about the truth about things. I feel like, once those ideas die with people, we'll be good in a couple of generations.

Vince Staples

#26. The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter