Quotes About Governance

Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but it's the same skills.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared. Finally the age When rulers are hated.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Sixth, I was impressed by the variety of corporate structures and modes of governance that these companies had come up with. Because they were private and closely held, they had the freedom to develop their own management systems and practices, and several had done so.

You can't spell unprofessional, unethical, or unaccountable without the UN.

The general ethos of the people they have to govern determines the behaviour of politicians.

Trump had also staffed key agencies with officials who were not interested in fulfilling the missions of the agencies, 51 a hallmark of conservative governance since the Reagan years, leaving huge organizational voids in places like the State Department.

The true state--- it is hardly necessary to say this---does not admit the rule of parties (partitocrazia) of democratic regimes.

The world is full of idiots, and always has been. But sometimes I wonder why such a disproportionate quantity of them end up running other people's lives.)

These rules of Saama, Daana, Bheda are all ineffective. You must use the fourth one, Danda.

If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.

For too long, Gov. Cuomo has led with fear, intimidation, and bullying.

One thing that we've invested a lot of in, that we all live by, is the power of the commissioner.

In the end, it's a good investment for America to be involved in helping people get democratic governance - not to take over their country - but to help people be free. And that is an investment that will pay off in the future.

I'm not too involved in day-to-day matters. I only supervise at the board level.

Collaborative governance needs to be more than calling on the advice and competence of others to make up for our episcopal shortcomings. Rather, governance involves seeking how God is revealing his work through others in the community.

Israel is not an anarchy.

Corruption is not a problem just for some countries; this is a global issue.

Addressing governance issues are important because whichever silo you work in, be it education, microfinance, sanitation, food or health, you would eventually hit governance deficit.

But we forget that government was also created to act and make decisions.

Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock, and Matt Andrews have argued that one of the big problems with developing countries' governments is that they engage in what they term "isomorphic mimicry," that is, copying the outward forms of developed countries' governments, while being unable to reproduce the kinds of outputs, like education and health, that the latter achieve.

When liberal democracies work well, state, law, and accountability all reinforce one another

The English race, consequently, has long and successfully studied the art of curbing executive power to the constant neglect of the art of perfecting executive methods. It has exercised itself much more in controlling than in energizing government. It has been more concerned to render government just and moderate than to make it facile, well-ordered and effective.