Quotes About Governance

The backbone of any improvement of governance, its development as well as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is a mechanism to place laws under the microscope of revision and modernization until they resonate in tune with the methodological development and new administrative technologies.

The Tory party is at is strongest when it is in tune with the hopes and aspirations of Britain's hard-working, law-abiding majority, and when it governs through clear Conservative principles.

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

The AAP government has turned Delhi into a city of potholes and has hurt the sentiments of people of the city.

The market turns out to be just one special case of collective decision-making.

I have non-breaking news for you: FIFA does not care what you think. Over the years, FIFA has never seemed influenced by what is written or said in papers, articles, tweets, blogs, and on television about how it operates.

Non-profits find the very best Who and put them on their Boards because they don't want to pay them.

I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?

An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

The corporate and financial worlds want to make the rules but they certainly do not want to be seen making them, or governing anyone.

You can blame it on the circumstances, the environment, but you made the choices you made, no one else. It's a lot to take in all at once, but it's essential that you make an effort to answer that question. Who are human beings? Because who we are determines the type of governing we need. Later on, I hope you can reflect and be honest with yourself about that you learned tonight.

Who are human beings? Because who we are determines the type of governing we need.

And the law required enforcement, and that was where control came in. Without the control to enforce the contract, chaos reigned. The power that controlled needed to be greater than the people – otherwise they would challenge it.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.

Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance.

The moral and political principles that govern men are derived from three sources: revelation, natural law, and the artificial conventions of society. With regard to its main purpose, there is no comparison between the first and the others; but all three are alike in that they all lead towards happiness in this mortal life.

As a former governor, I am familiar with the challenge of balancing the immediate electricity and heating needs of our citizens with the long-term priority of ensuring that power comes from a diverse mix of energy sources that allows us flexibility as we fight the effects of climate change.

In a pre-Internet world, sovereignty over our physical freedoms, or lack thereof, was controlled almost entirely by nation-states.