Quotes About Governance

One of my philosophies is that citizens are the mayor... so we have citizens play an integral role in making policies and implementing them.

That's what the founding fathers intended, that most decisions be made at the state level, not at the federal level.

The RBI is interacting with the banks every day.

I don't interfere with regulators.

Governments cannot interfere in football matters - Fifa suspends countries for that.

The international community doesn't cast a vote here. Gabonese people do, so I am accountable to them. They are the ones to give me my job or take it away. So this is what is really important to me.

How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.

When the head of state of family thinks first of gouging out an income, he must perforce do it through small men; and even if they are clever at their job, if one employ such inferior characters in state and family business the tilled fields will go rack swamp and ruin and edged calamities will mount up to the full.... This is the meaning of: A state does not profit by profits - Pound's translation of Confucius

What we need in politics today is not more democracy but less.

La primera enseñanza de la polis griega es que la peor ley escrita es mejor que el albedrío del más magnánimo de los señores. No es extraño qüe la aristocracia primitiva exigiese que las leyes le asegurasen su poder mediante «draconianas» disposiciones, y que, aun así, la aceptación de las leyes hubiese de serle arrancada. Sabía que la concesión que se veía obligada a hacer era cualitativamente impagable, que no podía haber contrapartida equivalente.

Ley 1 de Colombia: Todo gobernante que se va le deja un desastre aumentado al que llega. Ley 2: Todo gobernante que llega es más bellaco que el que se va.

On the lunatic fringe of Brexit – a fringe long enough to get in the eyes of rational governance – there is a belief that England can find itself only when the remnants of socialism and liberalism are burned off in the crucible of pain. Suffering is not a side effect of the great project; it is the medicine.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

For since the respective members are bound to conform themselves to the will of the state, it is expedient that they receive directions from the state declaratory of that it's will.

It is why boards were invented, to add sufficiently diverse wisdom to counter a single leader.

That is why effective organizations have monthly board meetings.

Directors' duties are both to work within the meaning and spirit of the laws and to behave in an ethical manner to their clients.

The chairman must take the lead responsibility for the board development processes.

boards must now be much clearer about their competencies, values and ethics

The rule of thumb at present seems to be that directors must not serve more than a total of nine years, three times a three-year service contract.

A civil society cannot exist without effective corporate governance to best deploy its economic and social capital.

effective corporate governance built on the values of accountability, honesty and transparency

The board should include a balance … such that no individual or small group of individuals can dominate the board's decision-making.