Quotes About Governance

China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.

Our aim is to set some kind of benchmark and standards for transparency and governance in private philanthropy.

One way to promote shareholder engagement and activism is through greater accountability and transparency.

From day one, the mission of my government based on transparency was to improve the lives of our citizens, to eradicate their difficulties owing to poor governance, and to make sure that the benefit of public services reach the lowest strata of the society.

Transparency and accountability must be restored in politics.

We are going to make every effort to have a transparent administration.

Kerala has little tolerance for corruption. We have also made our governance as transparent as much as possible.

If Indonesia improves governance of the fisheries sector and invests in large-scale maritime transport, it can double fish production by 2019.

To reverse the decline of our public transit system and end the transportation disparities that divide our city and region, we must channel calls for change into changed governance.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare—I have no use for him, either.

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them.

We cannot expect the men we appoint to govern us, to be better than ourselves.

Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth

You're an archaeologist. Truth comes finally into the light. It's in the bones and sediment. It's in character and nuance and mood. That is what governs us in our lives, that's not the truth. For the living it is the truth.

one found that they complained less about overbearing control than about the absence of responsible control.

Institutions generally like to mediate the individual's access to authority

Every body and thing has politics involved. Every. Single. Thing.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.

Netizens and site operators must find ways to police themselves in order to keep government interference to a minimum.

China's Internet will continue to be policed and controlled, information filtered, sites prohibited, noncompliant search engines excluded, and sensitive search words disallowed. And where China goes, others, also informed by different values, are already and will follow.

The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country.