Quotes About Governance

Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.

I said I wanted to lay the foundation for my governance and that included building relations with the City Council, with bureau directors, making sure we had the right leaders in place, making sure we're communicating with community groups that have an interest in of policymaking. I feel that we did that.

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people involved - versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Bringing accountability to Washington has been an important part of my time in office and an important part of my campaign.

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

Evidently not. They are just governing

At least you will admit—you have, in fact, admitted it—that we could not be worse governed than we are?" "That is not the point. The point is should we be better governed if we replaced the present ruling class by another? Without some guarantee of that I should be the last to lift a finger to effect a change. And what guarantees can you give?

Each sarkar contained a number of parganas or mahals, and there were several villages in every mahal or pargana. Most sarkars contained at least one town, where a kotwal was in charge of security.

In March 1748, different Sikh jathas or groups agreed to form a Dal Khalsa, an army of the Singhs, under the leadership of another Jassa Singh—Jassa Singh Ahluwalia81—who advanced the idea that the Khalsa should one day govern Punjab.

It is a disturbing sign of the times when the two most transformative science technologies affecting the globe—biotechnology and nanotechnology—are governed by no external ethical or legal frameworks to protect public safety and other public interests, despite the fact that both industries have benefited from heavy taxpayer-funded government support.

The less government we have, the better—the fewer laws, and the less confided power.

Article 356 gave it the power to take over a state administration on the recommendation of the governor.

People don't demand a say in how they're governed because they want to be rich. They demand it when they already are rich and crave something more.

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

Those whom Power can neither govern nor kill, it taxes with madness.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

We come from goldfish, essentially, but that [doesn't] mean we turned around and killed all the goldfish. Maybe [the AIs] will feed us once a week…. If you had a machine with a 10 to the 18th power IQ over humans, wouldn't you want it to govern, or at least control your economy? —SETH SHOSTAK

The President is the CEO of this business that we call America.

People elect me to make sure the chief of police is the right chief of police. They elect me to make sure I have the right person running the airport.

I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.

If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.

I believe good corporate governance is critical in enhancing competitiveness and creating industry - leading profitable growth and superior returns for every stakeholder of the institution.

We have to get smarter about our cities. Especially when it comes to the most basic of public services - water supply.