Quotes About Progress

Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.

The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.

You cannot be a party in stagnation. You have to have the constant reinvigoration of fresher ideas and the debate in terms of role of government and the rest is as ancient as - as old as America.

Development seems to have become the agenda only of government. It is seen as a scheme. That should not be the case. Development should be everyone's agenda. It should be a people's movement.

If we want to move forward, not just the Government but 125 crore Indians will have to do something.

We do not run government on whims of an individual, our progress is reforms driven, our reforms are policy driven and our policies are people driven.

The previous Governments took pride in making laws, but I am happier removing laws. Let's open the windows, let some fresh air come in.

A society that does not give importance to education cannot progress. Let there be any Government, it must have a vision to make India shine in the field of education.

Last year I spoke about Clean India and open defecation, it was criticised then but that has been the main point with which the government has touched the lives of the people.

I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are at least 10 to 15 years ahead of their governments.

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

Each and every one of us has a vital part to play in building the kind of world in which government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.

Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.

The government is not doing anything to help the country to heal. The government is just making cosmetic changes.

An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.

I am much more optimistic about consumer-driven change than I am governmental change. Anything can happen in government, but I do think we consumers can drive true change.

Have the government get out of the way.

I think today you can move ahead working with global companies more than with national governments.

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another but above all try something.

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles of our system of government.