Quotes About Governance

I believe in a balanced government. I don't believe in minimum or maximum. Balance is always the best way.

I'm not for laws. We need a minimum of laws.

When I was minister of sport in Brazil, I tried to bring in a law that would make the chairmen of clubs reveal their accounts like other businesses. It was turned down, but I think it is an important story that will make a good film.

Running a government as chief minister and managing affairs of the nation are different things.

KCR is not a Chief Minister, he is a cheap minister.

As the Chief Minister, I make it a point that review meetings are conducted every day - sometimes more than thrice a day - involving heads of all departments concerned.

Apart from being a chief minister, I am also the national president of my party. So I have to take care of the party in other states as well as in U.P.

In 60 years I'm yet to meet a Chief Minister who blames others for his own inability to work.

I have no hassles handling U.P. For 57 years, the state has been ruled by non-BSP parties which is why it is so backward. In my first term as the chief minister, in four months I did the work of four years.

I have always ensured that law and order was maintained during my tenures as Chief Minister of the state.

THE DECADE OF GREED? Ever since the New Deal, no successful American presidential candidate had run on an anti-government, pro-freedom platform; certainly none governed that way.

Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.

And because the condition of Man . . . is a condition of Warre of every one against every one; in which case every one is governed by his own Reason; and there is nothing he can make use of, that may not be a help unto him, in preserving his life against his enemyes; It followeth, that in such a condition, every man has a Right to every thing; even to one anothers body.

And therefore this is another error of Aristotle's politics, that in a well-ordered commonwealth, not men should govern, but the laws. What man, that has his natural senses, though he can neither write nor read, does not find himself governed by them he fears, and believes can kill or hurt him when he obeyeth not? Or that believes the law can hurt him; that is, words and paper, without the hands and swords of men?

He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind: which though it be hard to do, harder than to learn any Language, or Science; yet, when I shall have set down my own reading orderly, and perspicuously, the pains left another, will be onely to consider, if he also find not the same in himself. For this kind of Doctrine, admitteth no other Demonstration.

The dead should not rule the living.

If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience.

That government which governs best, governs least.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

No nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion that has been given to man and I as chief Magistrate of this nation am bound to give it the sanction of my example. Good morning Sir. [Replying on his way to church one Sunday to a friend, who said to him "You going to church Mr. J. You do not believe a word in it."]

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

the idea of separated powers and of rules governing all the contenders for power became imbedded in British tradition over the centuries.

I've always been about less government.

Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.