Quotes About Governance

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.

Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.

Too much of power has got concentrated in the hands of the Central and state governments.

A board of directors that cannot produce reliable audited financial statements for almost seven years simply should not remain in office.

States are not moral agents.

The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century of cities and mayors.

I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what portfolio of issue you're pushing, nothing is going to get done.

There are too many politicians in the world and too few statesmen.

For the last 25 years, myself and everybody in UKIP has worked to restore our country's former status as an independent, democratic nation that is governed by our politicians, elected by us, sackable by us, in accordance with our laws and customs and constitution.

We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

To those who have being stealing government money, it has to come to an end.

Government should steer, not row.

Africa Rising is as much about improving standards of governance as it is about an increasingly confident youths and civil society. It is also about businessmen and women who are stepping beyond national borders and going global.

So, he continued, if the government controls the established church, then the church ultimately must answer to the people. Thus, he concludes, the people "have the power to governe the Church, to see her do her duty, & to correct her, to redress, reform, establish, & c.

He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himselfe, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind;

The people are the only censors of their governors, and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution.

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite

A people who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. James Madison

Everything is politics.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them.

Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

To bring the matter to one point, Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us? Whoever says, No, to this question, is an independent, for independency means no more than this, whether we shall make our own law, or, whether the king, the greatest enemy which this continent hath, or can have, shall tell us there shall be no laws but such as I like.