Anoint v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

You can't fall back on the private sector and say 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government the Federal Reserve the Treasury and the FDIC etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better and that's what I'm doing.

Unfortunately corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

All too often government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out containing problems and limiting the damage but in doing so supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

Government is dysfunctional.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

One of the functions of an organization of any organism is to anticipate the future so that those relationships can persist over time.

Institutions - government churches industries and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail on the whole to perform this function they are wrong and need reconstruction.