Quotes About Governance

Every cook must learn to rule the State.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Our failures with city neighborhoods are, ultimately, failures in localized self-government.

Jacobs never relished the role of prophet, but at the end of her life she hazarded two related but opposite guesses. One path was what she called, in Dark Age Ahead, "cultural collapse." Jacobs found evidence of imminent decline in the erosion of family, community, science, education, governance, and professional integrity in North America.

I worry whoever thought up the term 'quality control' thought if we didn't control it, it would get out of hand.

The young generation is willing to experiment more. Firstly, they are less motivated by money and compensation, unlike the previous two generations. Secondly, integrity and governance are very important issues for them.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

It is my goal as governor to steady the ship of state and improve the image of Alabama, part of that entails ending unnecessary duplication of services within state agencies.

When I took over in 2000, Odisha was in a terrible financial state due to various policies, some of them unpopular.

A country without discipline would be chaotic and unstable.

Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable.

It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country.

Donald Trump has taken a battering ram to longstanding political norms - the unwritten conventions that make governance possible. But even before he decided to run for president, those norms were under assault.

I believe that as a part of good governance, all agencies should be reviewing regulations and cleaning up those that may be outdated, redundant, or unnecessary.

We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.

A democratically governed national fracking fund should be set up, perhaps similar to what Norway and Alaska have. Areas of drilling should be rented to companies through public tender, with or without subsidies, and a rising share of profits beyond a negotiated upper limit should be deposited in the national capital fund.

One thing I cannot understand - and people are probably going to be upset about this - is why local school boards have control over educational content.

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.

We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty.

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

David Stern is the mastermind behind a lot of stuff, he controls a lot of stuff, he dictates a lot of stuff so he's going to make himself look good.

I'm a great believer in governments doing as little as possible and people power doing the rest, so I'm in favour of governments being there to govern in the areas that need governing, not a whole heap of other things that they stick their sticky fingers into.