Governance Quotes - Page 7

• After World War II, American leaders were, in Dean Acheson's words, 'present at the creation' of a global order. Now at the end of the cold war, we desperately need that same vision, that leadership, that creativity to be applied to the governance of the global marketplace.

  John J. Sweeney

  War, Creativity, Order

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• We are bringing technology into governance in a very big way. This is making governance easy, effective, economic and transparent.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, Way, Easy

  PMO India‏ @PMOIndia, twitter.com. September 27, 2015.

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• E-governance is the only way to move from good governance to proactive pro-people good governance (P2G2).

  Narendra Modi

  Moving, People, India

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• I did not make any big speeches but acted upon working against corruption.

  Narendra Modi

  India, Speech, Corruption

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• There are 18,500 villages in the country where electricity is yet to reach. We want to ensure these villages are electrified within the next 1000 days.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, India, Village

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• We have successfully achieved the target of building toilets in schools.

  Narendra Modi

  School, India, Target

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• Through a policy driven approach we have wage a war against poverty and we are confident we will win this war.

  Narendra Modi

  War, Winning, India

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• We are changing the way we govern ourselves - not just in the way we work in New Delhi, but also in the way we work together with state governments, districts and cities. Because we know, as you do, that our vision may be formed in Delhi, but our success will be determined by state capitals.

  Narendra Modi

  Cities, Government, Vision

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• For me, the involvement of states in our national effort is not just because of their constitutional and legal responsibilities. It is also stems from a basic management principle. The chances of success are higher when we create a sense of participation for everyone; when we give everyone a stake in success.

  Narendra Modi

  Responsibility, Giving, Effort

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• When I speak of Team India I believe that the foundation for India's development will not be the single pillar of the Central Government, but 30 pillars comprising the Central Government and all our States.

  Narendra Modi

  Team, Believe, Government

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• Society and Government should together give priority to the poorest of poor and make efforts to provide affordable health services.

  Narendra Modi

  Government, Giving, Effort

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• Haiti is 10.4-million people, of whom 35 per cent are children under 15. The country has always had great potential - and this is still the case. Our ill fortune has long been a matter of bad governance. And now things have changed.

  Laurent Lamothe

  Country, Children, Long

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• A deal must include an equitable global governance structure. All countries must have a voice in how resources are deployed and managed.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, Voice, Global Warming

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• For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance,"..."By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace.

  Jacques Chirac

  Kyoto Protocol, Humanity, Acting

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• Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or a "Great Transformation" towards global sustainability would be initiated in due course. Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets.

  Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

  Transition, Would Be, Phases

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• Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by virtue of their dominance of the private society, while the population observes quietly. So understood, democracy is a system of elite decision and public ratification, as in the United States itself. Correspondingly, popular involvement in the formation of public policy is considered a serious threat. It is not a step towards democracy; rather it constitutes a 'crisis of democracy' that must be overcome.

  Noam Chomsky

  Money, Community, Decision

  Noam Chomsky (1990). “On Power and Ideology”, p.6, Black Rose Books Ltd.

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• The needlework of lies and rumors seeks to distract peoples attention from the daily business of governance under the Presidents leadership. Those who continually plot for the Presidents downfall will never succeed because she is a hard-working President with no other agenda than to promote our peoples welfare

  Eduardo Ermita

  Lying, Hard Work, President

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• From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading to the ravaging of human rights and the abandonment of longstanding humanitarian principles. We need competent and responsible states to meet the needs of "we the peoples" for whom the UN was created. And the world's peoples will not be fully served unless peace, development and human rights, the three pillars of the UN, are advanced together with equal vigour.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Rights, Together, East

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• The last few months have seen a welcome race to the top. Consumers have sent companies a clear signal that they do not want their purchasing habits to drive deforestation and companies are responding. Better still, companies are committing to working in partnership with suppliers, governments and NGOs to strengthen forest governance and economic incentives. It can be done and this Declaration signals a real intention to accelerate action.

  Paul Polman

  Real, Race, Government

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• Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.

  Vince Cable

  Responsibility, Abuse, Weak

  "Banking scandal: 'the rot was widespread, the corruption endemic'" by Vince Cable, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2012.

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• Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance.

  Lester R. Brown

  Community, Environmental, Global Warming

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• The Kyoto Protocol...the first component of an authentic global governance.

  Jacques Chirac

  Kyoto Protocol, Energy, Firsts

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• What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder value to understand the needs and fears of other stakeholders and their communities.

  Juan Somavia

  Giving, Community, Political

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• Power... Military success is not sufficient to win: economic development, institution-building and the rule of law, promoting internal reconciliation, good governance, providing basic services to the people, training and equipping indigenous military and police forces, strategic communications, and more of these, along with security, are essential ingredients for long-term success.

  Robert M. Gates

  Peace, Military, Communication

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• There can be no better measure of our governance than the way we treat our children, and no greater failing on our part than to allow them to be subjected to violence, abuse or exploitation.

  Jessica Lange

  Children, Political, Abuse

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