Quotes About Governance

Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

If the West wants to have peace, then they have to accept Islamic rule.

Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Good Governance cannot remain merely a philosophy. Concrete steps have to be taken for realizing its goals.

It's all about control.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

Politics should be about politics, not tribal ties