Quotes About Governance

If a politician is a successful administrator, certainly he has got every right to administer cricket.

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

Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.

Politicians can't manage. All they can do is talk.

Right to Information is a small concrete step in making our polity more democratic.

If a candidate at the MLA or chief ministerial level gets an advantage of belonging to a particular caste while fighting polls, that is one thing. But after having been elected, if you only look after the developmental needs of a particular caste or community, that is a different matter altogether. The BJP has never done that.

Poor governance affects us all - entrepreneurs, homemakers, farmers, labourers, whatever identities we might have.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

Yes, Portland is governable. Yes, it's challenging.

ESG investing poses particular concerns under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or Erisa, the federal law governing private retirement plans.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Gilani should be loyal to the country, the Constitution and law and not to Zardari alone.

I just accept that, if my party and my compatriots wish that I be removed from office, they must exercise that right and do so in the manner prescribed in the Constitution.

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

I like to be very much in control.

I like to have the ball and control the game.

I like to be in control.

I am pretty controlled I have to say.

I'd rather control someone than be controlled.

Corruption has seeped into every section of life.

There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.

Corruption exists everywhere.

In my very first Cabinet meeting, I told my colleagues we must take on corruption, lawlessness, casteism, and the politics of appeasement.