Quotes About Governance

My action against corruption has been well acclaimed by the people of Orissa.

Mayors are accountable in the way a council is not. Who can name their local councillor?

A country is not managed through cousins and confidants.

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

Global governments should start seriously talking about the creation of a World Tax Authority with the mission to ensure that tax systems will deliver for the public interests in all countries.

Our anti-corruption systems have inherently and intently been kept flawed.

The biggest problem for the Republican Party has never been its primary calendar, its campaign tactics, or a lack of trainings. The party's biggest problem is what it believes, what it says, and how it governs.

Every Christian family ought to be a little church, consecrated to Christ and wholly influenced and governed by His rules," Jonathan taught. "And family education and order are some of the chief means of grace.

relaxation of the laws and regulations that govern who can offer legal services and from what types of business. This is a call for liberalization.

resources are directed by a governance mechanism that is separate from any given business unit.

To be proficient, an organization needs a governance mechanism suitable for innovation (and usually separate from the planning and budgeting processes of the core business)

Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers.

I am merely trying to show that, in the present primitive condition of this backward planet, we are still governed by imprinting and conditioning — that all of us, like Mr. Gardner and Mr. Randi, find it literally impossible to think, even for a nanosecond, about certain ideas — that you and I think we are more tolerant than Mr. Randi or Mr. Gardner until we confront that which is strictly intolerable for us —

So, in real-world democracy, well-informed citizens are politically at the mercy of their irrational and ignorant fellow citizens. Knowing this, politicians and officials strategically cater to majority irrationality, and, once in power, they govern for the sake of gaining reelection.

As we learned to our horror at the turn of the twentieth century in the Philippines, as well as in the 1960s in Vietnam, and again in the last decade in Iraq, to invade is to govern. Once you decide to send in ground forces in significant numbers, it becomes your job to administer the territory you've just conquered—or to identify someone immediately who can.

By this axe I rule!

Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.

This is a witchocracy, not a democracy. Clear?

They talked and talked and talked. Twenty-four biomes, ten thousand conversations. Talk talk talk. As they talked, it began to come clear to them that they had no very effective method of governance, when it came to making decisions as a group. Had humans ever had such a thing, they asked themselves, since leaving the savannah? Since congregating in cities? They could not be sure. The histories suggested maybe not.

Mr Gandhi thought)...The parliament system was too slow at times unproductive , and it never gave a free hand to the person at the top....

each of us rules himself, or at least tries to do so. It is not an easy thing to do, as you probably know.

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments