Quotes About Governance

No economy can tolerate the level of corruption seen in Nigeria without consequences.

But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.

We have a lot of bad leaders around the world that operate in ways we would never tolerate in the United States.

The mere fact of holding elections, Americans already knew, was not sufficient to guarantee people's rights. That truth—that an election per se is less important than the architecture within which it takes place—played out in the painful struggles that took place in Arab Spring countries after their revolutions.

We endorse the manmade competition between ourselves that disunites us, striping us of our true ability. We don't believe we can govern better, and until we believe this, we never will. It's time for a new society.

What is government but theft by consent?

So severe is the crisis that in 2011 Governor Rick Snyder persuaded the state legislature to grant him broad and unprecedented powers to take control of fiscally unstable local governments and to abrogate union agreements, a highly controversial maneuver that smacks of malevolent paternalism more than sound public management.

All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.

I think it's time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones

I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.

This is a complicated time to govern in the world today because of so much going on and it's coming at us at such an unprecedented rate.

It requires time to bring honest Men to think & determine alike even in important Matters. Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.

If you want to be popular all the time, you will misgovern

Real time functioning should have the PM and the CMs of the states working in tandem. The Federal structure is important in letter and spirit, it is our strength

I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise.

No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

It is the essence of power that it accrues to those with the ability to determine the nature of the real.

At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism. Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers?

De repente, los comunistas se encontraron en la extraordinaria posición, que los críticos calificaron de absurda, de tener que gobernar a un pueblo y al mismo tiempo fomentar la revolución.

Mencius observes that the main cause of conflict in the political arena is the abandonment of righteousness as the raison d'être for the ruling minority to enjoy privilege and status without involving themselves in productive labor. Any attempt to profit unjustly or abuse their power in this way in fact makes their legitimate claim to leadership suspect. Their ability to govern is undermined and the public sphere over which they reign becomes privatized.

Were she to be allowed to take her rightful place as the elected leader of the Burmese people, I have little doubt that the principles so eloquently expressed in these pages would illuminate her governance.

The people owed it to themselves to monitor those who governed.