"This thing about getting rid of a..." - Quote by Will Rogers
This thing about getting rid of a man in the Cabinet is all right, but there is one bad feature to it that few people realize. That is, that unfortunately every one of them is replaced by someone else. If it wasn't for that, this resignation business would be great.
More by Will Rogers
“I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy.”
“Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.”
“The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.”
More on Government
“Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state, and the common good of the citizens. And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue.”
“With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist.”
“Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.”
More on Bureaucracy
“Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.”
“Socialism would gather all power tothe supreme party and party leaders,rising like stately pinnaclesabove their vast bureaucracies ofcivil servants no longer servants, no longer civil.”
“There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.”