Quotes About Politics And Governance

#1. If people don't take politics seriously, then they deserve the jokers that rule over them.

Jit Sharma

#2. Congress' dynastic politics has shattered the hopes & aspirations of people. Congress hides behind the veil of secularism whenever its governance falters and its misconduct is exposed. This will no longer go unchallenged. The younger generation will not accept these actions of Congress!

Narendra Modi

#3. Who controls the words controls your thoughts.

Heather Marsh

#4. We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.

Arundhati Roy

#5. Sometimes it's okay to let your guard down, Cole. If you don't, you'll miss the best things in life.

S.E. Jakes

#6. A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.

Glenn Greenwald

#7. The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

Stewart Stafford

#8. A commanding woman versed in politics, diplomacy, and governance; fluent in nine languages; silver-tongued and charismatic, Cleopatra nonetheless seems the joint creation of Roman propagandists and Hollywood directors.

Stacy Schiff

#9. He feels it himself, and says often that he is 'preparing to leave all this; preparing to leave ... ' while he waves his hand sadly at his butterflies.

Joseph Conrad

#10. Direct democracy is lazy anarchy, for people who don't want to be governed but are too lazy to govern themselves. They want participation served to them.

Heather Marsh

#11. 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

#12. We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.

Heather Marsh

#13. 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

#14. Self-governance does not mean no one is responsible. It means everyone is.

Heather Marsh

#15. Your worst enemy is not the person in opposition to you. It is the person occupying the spot you would be fighting from and doing nothing.

Heather Marsh

#16. What the United States call democracy is actually a vertical model of remote governance by oligarchs - economic barons and their political representatives. The result is that citizens in the United States have little control over what the U.S. government does.

S. Brian Willson

#17. It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities.

Sonia Gandhi

#18. You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

William Hague

#19. What we now have as a government is a god, built by our mortal hands and, yet, externally variant in power, always requiring our prayers, pity and appeals in order to fulfill its supposed purposes.

Tony Osborg

#20. With speed skating, it's like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It takes an enormous amount of strength, and you're in such a weird position.

Apolo Ohno

#21. Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society itself, including our religions and so-called morals and values, are institutions steeped in traditions of absolute and total violence.

Bryant McGill

#22. I see your fear, they told her, but no harm will come to you by me.

Patricia Briggs

#23. There is no one more sinister or dangerous than an ambitious yet characterless Politician!

Robert Anthony Kerr

#24. We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method; should we use any less fair method for a nation or a planet?

Peter J. Carroll

#25. Considering what is at stake politically, economically and technically for most organizations; usually justifying IT governance deployment based on one viewpoint narrows suitability and expected benefits.

Robert E. Davis

#26. When people think that politics is a joke, they then deserve the jokers that rule them.

Jit Sharma

#27. I worry about the direction of the U.K. and U.K. politics and governance in the event of a Brexit.

Nicola Sturgeon

#28. In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.

Ian Goldin

#29. What the hell are those?" Zach pushed at my foot with his finger.

"My boots."

"It looks like your foot's being attacked by a Muppet.

Theresa Paolo

#30. Pain, thou art not an evil

Alexandre Dumas

#31. Power is the ability to direct or privent the current or future actions of other groups and individuals.

Moises Naim