Governance Quotes - Page 4

• The concept of the "information society" is both vague and all-embracing. Different participants meant different things by it. In practice, though, World Summit on the Information Society only dealt with a small number of issues: ICTs and human rights (to some extent), ICTs and development (to some extent), infrastructure finance and Internet governance. Very large aspects of what might have been included in the "information society" were not really discussed.

  David Souter

  Issues, Rights, Small Numbers

  "Interview with David Souter: Learning from the WSIS Experience". Interview with Kat Walraven, www.apc.org. September 12, 2007.

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• Under the notion that unregulated market-driven values and relations should shape every domain of human life, the business model of governance has eviscerated any viable notion of social responsibility while furthering the criminalization of social problems and cutbacks in basic social services, especially for the poor, young people and the elderly.

  Henry Giroux

  Responsibility, Elderly, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• [This upset] means that means Donald Trump now has to transition to governance.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Upset, Transition

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• Most likely, the system of mutual relations that has evolved in Eastern Europe and Asia corresponds to another level of governance.

  Garry Kasparov

  Europe, Levels, Asia

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• Unfortunately, in Russia this "Asian mentality,"still comes to the fore. But at the same time, it is obvious that there is a certain orientation toward the West. In the end, this is a fragile balancing act between the Asian manner of governance and high living standards that are guaranteed through Western technology.

  Garry Kasparov

  Technology, Russia, West

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• In my opinion, this vicious circle will be broken by history itself. Because sticking to the current form of governance, which is to say guaranteeing the survival of [Vladimir] Putin's regime, will necessarily lead to the demise of Russia within its present borders.

  Garry Kasparov

  Russia, Circles, Broken

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• I think as we interpret him and frankly as the world learns to interpret Donald Trump, are these just words that are enigmatic things floating on air or are they actually shifts in policy and will they change moment by moment, day by day without any underlying connection to the actual stuff of governance? I don't know.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Air, Connections

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't think we do a great job in America any more of distinguishing between campaigns and governance. We live in an environment that's all campaign all of the time and it's helpful, now that we've moved beyond a campaign and an election to get into a governance posture.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  Jobs, Thinking, America

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.

  William Hague

  Country, Hands, People

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• Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‘Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path.’ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

  Pope Francis

  Humble, Men, Order

  "Pope Francis: We Need You in Washington, D.C." by Jim Wallis, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2013.

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• We have a duty to look after each other. If we lose control of our government, then we lose our ability to dispense justice and human kindness. Our first priority today, then, is to defeat utterly those forces of greed and corruption that have come between us and our self-governance.

  Doris "Granny D" Haddock

  Kindness, Government, Self

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• The government would devote all its effort to empower the poor and give them strength to fight poverty. Skill development would be accompanied by the spirit of Shrameva Jayate.

  Narendra Modi

  Fighting, Government, Skills

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• Economist and Africa expert Collier analyzes why a group of 50 nations, home to the poorest one billion people, are failing. Considering issues such as civil war, dependence on extractive industries, and bad governance, he argues that the strongest industrialized countries must enact a plan to help with international policies and standards.

  Amy Lockwood

  Country, War, Home

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• Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.

  Tom Allen

  Confused, Lying, Ocean

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• Global market forces will sort out those companies that do not have sound corporate governance.

  Mervyn King

  Sound, Force, Company

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• I don't know why America always thinks she has to run all around the world forcing people to take our way of governance at the barrel of a gun. When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!

  Dick Gregory

  Running, Thinking, Gun

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• If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibility.

  Peter L. Berger

  Socialist Economy, Degrees, Possibility

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• Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to Government which, through force, will set the parameters of your life.

  Brian Wilson

  Exercise, Government, Self

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• The basic idea of governance, as I see it, is to hold the society together so that it can develop and march towards certain goals.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  Ideas, Goal, Together

  Lal Bahadur Shastri (1967). “Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri commemoration souvenir”

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• Governance is everything. Without governance we have nothing

  Mo Ibrahim

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• The 'Idea of India' is an India of opportunity and aspiration. An India where: all are prosperous and happy, all are free from illness.

  Narendra Modi

  Opportunity, Ideas, India

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• There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.

  Mo Ibrahim

  Faces, Crisis

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• The knowledge of the individual citizen is of less value than the knowledge of science. The former is the opinion of individuals. It is merely subjective and is excluded from policies. The latter is objective - defined by science and promulgated by expert spokesmen. This objective knowledge is viewed as a commodity which can be refined... and fed into a process, now called decision-making. This new mythology of governance by the manipulation of knowledge-stock inevitably erodes reliance on government by people.

  Ivan Illich

  Government, People, Decision

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• I come from a land where the idea of the whole world being one family is rooted in our ethos 'vasudhaiva kutumbakam'.

  Narendra Modi

  Land, Ideas, Ethos

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• If wrong decisions, both from a governance perspective and ethics, happen, this is a slippery slope that we will go down. Unless and until you recognise this, you will not take the right decisions.

  Cyrus Pallonji Mistry

  Perspective, Decision, Slippery Slope

  Source: zeenews.india.com

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