Quotes About Governance

Citizens need to know how their countries are being run so that they can hold governments and big business to account.

Sports can't be run by governments.

The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.

Every governor's got tough choices to make.

When I was elected governor of my state, I had a legislature 87 percent Democrat. It was not lost on me that to get anything done, I couldn't be attacking them. I had to find ways to reach out to them.

I have 15 years of executive experience as a big-city mayor and as a governor.

Colorado needs a governor who brings people together to create jobs and cut government spending.

The job of the governor of the state of Florida is to do what is in the best interest of the people of the state of Florida.

Governors compete. States compete. People & businesses decide.

I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.

between 1957 and 1990 there were more than 150 African heads of state and only six relinquished power voluntarily.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed.

To a large extent, corporations govern us and run our lives—for their profit, not ours. The list could go on and on.

At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.

Management must manage!

We need to work out what kind of systems of governance we should have.

You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

Climate change brings pressures that will influence resource competition between nations and place additional burdens on economies, societies and governance institutions around the globe. These effects are threat multipliers.

Corporate governance should be done more through principles than rules.

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

Can we understand - just for the record, we do need the government for a lot of big ticket items.

The Football Association have always acted more as a referee than a governor. And the FA, aware the Premier League provide players for the England team, have always had too gentle a hand on the tiller. The result is that the Premier League are the tigers in the English football jungle everybody's scared of.