Good Government Is Good Politics Quotes

#1. Good government is good politics.

Richard J. Daley

#2. My approach is to 100 percent get the concept and the visual right. Get the client to love the space. Once they love the space, everything's possible.

James Pearse Connelly

#3. One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

Donald Trump

#4. Come join me for some tea so we can discuss how your giong to die

Anthony Horowitz

#5. i was fine not liking you. i was fine not liking anyone. and now i'm in the middle of this and so lost i can hardly think straight. but now that you matter, and i don't know what to do about it. - Eadlyn

Kiera Cass

#6. The objective is to change the system and the behaviour it encourages, rather than replacing 'bad' people with 'good' people.

Owen Jones

#7. Be the person you are, not the one others try to create.

Jonathan Heatt

#8. As Dio observed later, democracy sounded very well and good, but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title. Monarchy, on the contrary, has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under. For it is easier to find a single excellent man than many of them.

Stacy Schiff

#9. The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend ... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. What do you mean by sound government?'
Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from fear and war and crime, a reasonably equitable distribution of wealth and resources, concern for the individual life.'
Then we haven't got sound government.

P.D. James

#11. Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments.

Charles Bukowski

#12. The clump-and-thud of avalanching books suggested that someone must be using the weapon of knowledge in an unconventional fashion.

Dean Koontz

#13. While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious why so many secularists are addicted to politics because political power is a surrogate for a Higher Power.

J.P. Moreland

#14. I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

Barack Obama

#15. Have you ever found yourself saying, "There ought to be a law against this," or, "Somebody should do something"? Well, here's the good news - you can be the one to do something. You can be the one to make the law.

Victoria Stoklasa MA

#16. [Obamacare] has to be enforced because nobody wants it. This is the nature of progressive government they don't care if it's not good for you. It's good for them.

Greg Gutfeld

#17. And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.

Thomas Paine

#18. If you have the right to influence the laws that are made in your community, why not take the opportunity to do something good?

Victoria Stoklasa

#19. The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.

Thomas Jefferson

#20. George W. said he doesn't watch television. And, of course, well - the reason for that is the Clintons stole the White House satellite system.

David Letterman

#21. You know, I'm just 6'9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.

LeBron James

#22. Whatever music sounds like, I am glad to say it does not sound in the smallest degree like German.

Oscar Wilde

#23. The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

Jonah Goldberg

#24. I had no idea how free we were. That's how free I was.

Brendan Cowell

#25. Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming megalomaniacs. It was probably in the job description: "Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted minister.

Terry Pratchett

#26. great art can come from anywhere but not from anyone

Abe

#27. The challenge has always been that "good people" don't know how to win elections

Fela Durotoye

#28. I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

Daniel Schorr

#29. Republicans: 'we fought the good fight' - yeah, it woulda been worth it if we could have prevented just one poor kid from getting a free inhaler.

Bill Maher

#30. Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

#31. Love will let you want and trust in Miracles.

Prakash Hegade

#32. Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty.

Fredrika Bremer

#33. It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good.

Leonard Woolf

#34. Contrary to the prevailing notion that good governance is bad politics, in reality good governance is good politics. A government should work keeping in mind the welfare of future generations, not the next election.

Narendra Modi

#35. I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.

Laura Chinchilla

#36. I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have.

George Will