Governance Quotes - Page 9

Governance allows organizations to...achieve unprecedented automation.

Dick Taylor

Organization, Automation, Achieve

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If globalization is to realise its potential as a force for good, we have to look more closely at the means by which we handle our growing interdependence. We do not have a world government, but we do have an increasingly complex network of institutions that are concerned with global governance. They are central to our future and international human rights law

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Mean, World Government, Rights

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There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

Jairam Ramesh

Decision, Good Times, Tough

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My struggle is to bring 'life' in 'file'.

Narendra Modi

Powerful, Struggle, Files

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Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.

Mary Matalin

Self, Numbers, People

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Understanding strengths and weaknesses is very essential in setting forth a clean administration and for sustainable and lasting solutions.

Narendra Modi

Understanding, Weakness, India

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Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.

Pratibha Patil

Inspirational, Government, People

Pratibha Patils farewell speech to the nation, www.abplive.in. July 24, 2012.

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India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.

Pratibha Patil

Country, Strong, Thinking

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In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

Gijs de Vries

Military, Rights, Lawlessness

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From my experience of having served for 3000 days, I can say that anything can be achieved.

Narendra Modi

India, I Can

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There is no red tapism in my state, only red carpet.

Narendra Modi

India, Red, States

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We will work on inclusive governance for inclusive growth

Rahul Gandhi

Growth

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I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.

Wangari Maathai

Environment, Protect, Protect The Environment

"Kenyan Environmentalist Wins Peace Prize", www.foxnews.com. October 8, 2004.

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But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

Wangari Maathai

Erosion, Issues, Logging

"I Will Disappear Into the Forest". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2005.

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The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving towards new forms of governance.

Michelle Bachelet

Moving, Past, Different

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School boards are, for the most part ,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about.

Eli Broad

School, People, Office

"Online Extra: Q&A with Eli Broad". Interview with John A. Byrne, www.bloomberg.com. December 2, 2002.

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Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.

David Cameron

Successful, Long, Needs

"The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". Bloomberg speech, www.independent.co.uk. January 2013.

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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.

Richard Carmona

Issues, Ideas, Return

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The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem, you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it for you.

Chris Christie

Jobs, War, Heart

Speech at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, www.weeklystandard.com. September 27, 2011.

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The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it. To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It's not just a cost to the people who live there. It's a cost to all people everywhere.

Sylvia Earle

Integrity, Mean, People

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The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.

Anna Lindh

Records, Development, Economic

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Pro-active good governance aims beyond short-term requirement keeping in mind the long-term needs such as the use of clean technology and in preparedness and mitigating climate change fallout etc.

Narendra Modi

Technology, Long, Mind

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Gujarat is all about Trade with Tradition, Commerce with Culture, Enterprise with Entertainment and Development with Disaster management.

Narendra Modi

India, Culture, Gujarat

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Development should be a mass movement. We need to integrate the people and make it a mass movement.

Narendra Modi

People, Needs, Movement

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BJP is committed to transform the agriculture sector. We want to increase farmer income and the purchasing power of villages.

Narendra Modi

Agriculture, Bjp, India

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