Quotes About Governance

As society becomes more and more complex, cheating will in many ways become progressively easier and easier to do and harder to police or even understand.

Judiciary must be encouraged to find ways and means to regulate its own affairs - consistent with the spirit of the Constitution.

If citizens do not believe they can change their leaders through the ballot box, they will find other ways, even at the risk of destabilizing their countries.

We cannot be mere consumers of good governance, we must be participants; we must be co-creators.

Fifa has lost the trust of the people. We cannot allow the architects and controllers of world football to get away with dragging the beautiful game through the grime of corruption and bribery.

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

We cannot survive if we give corruption any chance. Corruption can only exist with an umbrella from the top.

The rule of law, democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of expression - we cannot take them for granted. They do not exist willy-nilly across the world; they are very rare.

We cannot let Brussels put itself above the law.

It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.

Elected officials should be held to a higher standard, and we cannot enable misbehavior with a system that secretly settles with public funds.

Agencies must know who they are accountable to. If the agencies know who they are accountable to but we cannot say who they are accountable to, then really it is a very sad situation that is bound to be misused. It is bound to affect human rights.

We have two political parties in this country; we cannot have one of them be abandoned to complete nutcases. We've got to have two good political parties.

Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.

When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has weakened our institution.

Past experience has shown that the Islamists gain space when civilian authority weakens.

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.

We know this much about how Barack Obama plans to govern: He will deploy the fattest checkbook ever at the disposal of an incoming American president.

If I could police every other social platform in the world, I would.

Those who elected Hamas in Palestine did so on the basis of its political platform.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.