Quotes About Governance

Gujarat under Narendra Modi has focused on good governance in the power sector and implemented long-term reforms as opposed to the short-term and anarchic methods adopted by Sheila Dikshit and Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi.

The coalition is a model that has no place in a presidential regime such as in Mexico. It fits in parliamentary models, but Mexico has a presidential regime.

We must decentralize to deal with regional satraps.

We need to understand that we've divided our country in language based states. So what happens is that more regional parties come in the front and different opinions don't let any one particular strong decision to pass through.

As Governor I, and my office, have the responsibility to appoint members to various boards and commissions; this executive order ensures that we will no longer appoint registered lobbyists to those positions.

There is no such thing as free regulation.

I think what is effective regulation is one that follows the law and one that will be held up in court.

We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.

The BJP, during its reign, has never misused Article 356.

As I prepare to take over the reins of your government, I ask each of you to join me in the process of governing.

Having the reins of governance, power and political influence within one family will shatter the idea of equal opportunity to all, which is the basic concept of democracy.

Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the creation of fair and equitable rules to enhance the development prospects of developing countries.

Most history books are about power.

Sitting on a corporate board is a hobby for me.

The electorate is starved for honest debate and for the good governance that follows from it.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all.

Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.

It's always the same wherever one goes- it's not the most powerful rulers who have the happiest populations

It's always the same wherever one goes—it's not the most powerful rulers who have the happiest populations.

The worst thing about corruption as a system of governance, Didier once said, is that it works so well.

The worst thing about corruption as a system of governance, is that it works so well.

Anarchists...' I began and then faltered. 'No political philosophy I ever heard of loves the human race as much as anarchism. Every other way of looking at the world says that people have to be controlled, and ordered around, and governed. Only the anarchists trust human beings enough to let them work it out for themselves. And I used to be that optimistic once. I used to believe and think like that. But I don't, any more. So, no--I guess I'm not an anarchist now.

No political philosophy I ever heard of loves the human race as much as anarchism. Every other way of looking at the world says that people have to be controlled, and ordered around, and governed. Only the anarchists trust human beings enough to let them work it out for themselves.