Quotes About Good Governance

#1. Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.

Frank Herbert

#2. People's participation is the essence of good governance.

Narendra Modi

#3. Good governance depends on ability to take responsibility by both administration as well as people.

Narendra Modi

#4. Good governance is less about structure and rules than being focused, effective and accountable.

Pearl Zhu

#5. Good governance is treating development as a mass movement in order to see that fruits of development reach the poor and the downtrodden.

Narendra Modi

#6. Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance.

Anna Lindh

#7. While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation.

Narendra Modi

#8. People power must be combined with good governance to bring about real, deep and lasting change. This combination can achieve almost everything from eliminating corruption to ending malnutrition and illiteracy.

Narendra Modi

#9. For achieving good governance political will is necessary. Good governance is a political process. Though role of civil society is critical, without political will and political process, sustainable good governance cannot be achieved.

Narendra Modi

#10. Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.

Emile Lahoud

#11. The government's job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

Narendra Modi

#12. 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

#13. The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably governance, good governance or a certain kind of governance makes a huge difference in our lives.

Nicolas Berggruen

#14. BJP is a political party with a difference that aims at good governance. This is proved by the fact that three of the five Chief Ministers according to a recent NDTV survey/poll are from BJP-ruled states.

Narendra Modi

#15. Mere good governance is not enough; it has to be pro-people and pro-active. Good governance is putting people at the center of development process.

Narendra Modi

#16. Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors ... History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the reverse.

Rudy Giuliani

#17. Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

Lee H. Hamilton

#18. Good governance is about nothing more or less than creating happiness. It really is that simple.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

#19. 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

#20. There is one rule for the G-7 (richest countries) and another for the South. The G-7 now preaches open economies and liberalization, as well as 'good governance' and 'transparency'. Yet none of these things was conspicuous when the West grew rich.

Jeremy Seabrook

#21. Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

Joe Biden

#22. Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

Kofi Annan

#23. We also call upon the king to hand over power to the political parties and for the political parties to shoulder their responsibility and turn the people's demands for democracy and good governance into reality.

Joseph Adam Ereli

#24. Good governance is not fire-fighting or crisis-management. Instead of opting for ad-hoc solutions the need of the hour is to tackle the root cause of the problems.

Narendra Modi

#25. Corruption is a virus with an antidote.
Injustice is an illness with a remedy.
Wisdom is the key to good governance;
righteousness is the key to sustaining it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#26. 2014 Lok Sabha Elections is a battle between good governance agenda of the NDA versus the misgovernance and corruption of the UPA.

Narendra Modi

#27. Good governance needs self-discipline. Only discipline within can ensure discipline without.

Narendra Modi

#28. Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

Narendra Modi

#29. Free press key to good governance

Anonymous

#30. 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

#31. (Indeed there were outstanding examples of good governance in India at the time, notably the Travancore kingdom, which in 1819 became the

Shashi Tharoor

#32. During freedom struggle, It were authors and artists who made the Nation stand with their pen, and now their pen can create an environment of renaissance when Independent India is on the path of Good Governance.

Narendra Modi

#33. Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.

Heather Brooke

#34. E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.

Narendra Modi

#35. Team Work is the essence of good governance. It is necessary to form a team within the party and also within the administrative system.

Narendra Modi

#36. 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

#37. Good Governance cannot remain merely a philosophy. Concrete steps have to be taken for realizing its goals.

Narendra Modi

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

Narendra Modi

#39. 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

#40. Transparency is the key to good governance & e-governance is the only effective way of transparent governance.

Narendra Modi

#41. My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

Narendra Modi

#42. Everyone with all those good intentions came to help Indonesia rebuild from the tsunami; but the co-ordination problem was very big, because they came with their own way of doing business; they came with the inflexibility of their own governance.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#43. To me, one of the proofs that there is a moral governance in the universe is the fact that when people and governments work intelligently and far-sightedly for the good of others, they achieve their own prosperity, too.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#44. Good corporate governance, it's about being proper and prosper.

Toba Beta

#45. 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

#46. I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State.

Sophocles

#47. A good government does dirty jobs.

Toba Beta

#48. In the end, it's a good investment for America to be involved in helping people get democratic governance - not to take over their country - but to help people be free. And that is an investment that will pay off in the future.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

#49. 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

#50. And knowing what happens on average is a good place to start. By so doing, we insulate ourselves from the tendency to build our thinking - our daily decisions, our laws, our governance - on exceptions and anomalies rather than on reality

Steven D. Levitt

#51. [I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Elizabeth I

#52. 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

#53. 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