Quotes About Governance

You do not need 435 people playing commander-in-chief.

The Commission is extremely important. The E.U. without the Commission would not be the European Union.

There needs to be a college football commissioner.

If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.

Bills should go through committee.

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

Government is connected to everything we do.

I mean, the idea of a government shutdown, it's a consequence of our system.

This is why it's bad to run a country by executive order: because our nation runs on laws - when everyone knows the law, and everyone knows what it is, you know both the law and the consequence, and you get that.

Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended.

But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.

The problems of the world, from immigration to populism to income inequality to sustainability to peacekeeping, require a well-functioning supranational body.

Democracy is rarely easy, nor swift.

There is always a gap between what candidates say in the heat of the campaign, when they are not constrained by the realities of governance, and how they act after being sworn into office.

You cannot treat Sydney the same as the rest of the state.

A board constituted as the board of Sydney Hospital is constituted is not a suitable body to have control of an institute of medical research.

In Sydney, it's not sustainable to have 41 council entities.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

gouverner l esprit des autres, et non faire le salut de son âme, ni rechercher le vrai ou le beau.

Là où la royauté a pu se maintenir en devenant « constitutionnelle », elle n'est plus que l'ombre d'elle-même et n'a guère qu'une existence nominale et « représentative », comme l'exprime la formule connue d'après laquelle « le roi règne, mais ne gouverne pas », ce n'est véritablement qu'une caricature de l'ancienne royauté.

Idealistic? Ruddy stupid, if you'll pardon the language, miss,: Mr Roberts said. "All this talk about power for the people and down with the ruling classes and everyone should govern themselves. It can never happen, I told him. The ruling classes are born to rule. They know how to do it. You take a person like you or me and you put us up there to run a country and we'd make a ruddy mess of it.

First: modern society, with its millions, is essentially ungovernable. The public must instead be controlled by manipulation. The men who do this manipulating, in government or not, are the true leaders, philosopher-kings. They need not manipulate all the people, only the few thousand who set the agenda. The drivers of history are not the people, in other words, nor the elite who influence the people, but the PR men who influence the elite who influence the people.

It is increasingly the case in Western culture that Christians can participate in public governance only insofar as they suppress their explicitly Christian motivations. Paradoxically, the Christian community might have more impact upon the world if it were less concerned about appearing reasonable in the eyes of the world and more concerned about faithfully embodying the New Testament's teaching against violence.

You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.