Quotes About Governance

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Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past,'" repeated Winston obediently.

We all need to work together, because there are no jobs on a dead planet; there is no equity without rights to decent work and social protection, no social justice without a shift in governance and ambition, and, ultimately, no peace for the peoples of the world without the guarantees of sustainability.

A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

What we want to do is call attention to the fact that when workers and business work together, when you create a stakeholder model of corporate governance, where you understand that you can do well by your workers, you can do well by your shareholders and you can do well by your customers, that's how we create a virtuous cycle.

Good governance requires working toward common ground. It isn't easy.

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

We need a T governance structure capable of responding to the depth of our regional transportation crisis while tearing down silos that keep municipal leaders and state officials from working together with urgency on shared goals.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

The World Bank is a shareholder-driven organisation, and as in all such organisations, the majority of shareholders would want a manager of their liking at the top.

At the World Bank, we are already working with our clients in developing countries to improve their governance systems, collect taxes, fight corruption, and recover stolen assets.

I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.

We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'

The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis or however many others they appoint, can govern the country.

Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.

And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.

I'm tired of divided government. It doesn't work very well.

'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

I think good governance and good politics can go together.

The governor should be a public servant, who listens, brings people together and governs with compassion.