Quotes About Governance

Pro-active good governance aims beyond short-term requirement keeping in mind the long-term needs such as the use of clean technology and in preparedness and mitigating climate change fallout etc.

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

It is the population which decides when it's time for a leader to leave, not foreign powers.

It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.

Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.

It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.

Indeed there were outstanding examples of good governance in India at the time, notably the Travancore kingdom, which in 1819 became the first government in the world to decree universal, compulsory and free primary education for both boys and girls.) The British charges against the rulers they

Indeed there were outstanding examples of good governance in India at the time, notably the Travancore kingdom, which in 1819 became the

Indeed there were outstanding examples of good governance in India at the time, notably the Travancore kingdom, which in 1819 became the first government in the world to decree universal, compulsory and free primary education for both boys and girls.)

Global governance is a concept that is used to describe the processes and institutions by which the world is governed, and it was always intended to be an amorphous idea, since there is no such thing as a global government to provide such governance. 'Global governance' is a term that tries to impose a sense of order, real or imagined, on a world without an organized system of government.

Thus, early on, while the people were declared "sovereign," they were precluded from governing.

In the new model the presidency bears little resemblance to the original conception of a national leader and chief executive; it owes even less to the later ideal of the president as "the tribune of the people.

Over the centuries politicians and political theorists—starting with Plato's Republic—have emphasized disinterestedness, not personal advantage, as the fundamental virtue required of those entrusted with state power.

At the same time rulers were exhorted to protect and promote the common good of society and the well-being of all of their subjects.

The ideal of a democratic political culture was about cooperating in the care of common arrangements, of practices in which, potentially, all could share in deciding the uses of power while bearing responsibility for their consequences.

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.

Mughal success was the product of hard-driving, active rulership exercised by extremely capable rulers who acted as their own chief executives.

As long as a single center has a monopoly on the use of coercion, one has a state rather than a self-governed society.

contemporary states make live, let die, and kill

I don't know how you can walk around in a utility fog that could start disassembling your body anything your Governors decide they're done with you.