Governance Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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 Levitt

  Reality, Thinking, Average

  Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2010). “SuperFreakonomics, Illustrated edition: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance”, p.31, Harper Collins

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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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• We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.

  Bob Geldof

  Spring, War, Trying

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• I would need to see changes in the Iraq governance. Otherwise I don't think strikes are going to have any impact and could be very well counterproductive.

  Adam Schiff

  Military, Thinking, Iraq

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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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• The planet Earth in its present mode of florescence is being devastated. This devastation is being fostered and protected by legal, political and economic establishments that exalt the human community while offering no protection to the non-human modes of being. There is an urgent need for a Jurisprudence (system of governance) that recognizes that the well-being of the integral world community is primary, and that human well-being is derivative - an Earth Jurisprudence.

  Thomas Berry

  Offering, Community, Political

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• We desperately need some new thinking today about systems of global governance. We're stuck with the same obsolete, ignore-the-earth institutions that were brough into being after the 2nd World War, and they're now failing us ever more catastropically. Wild Law shows just how radical we now need to be in creating new institutions that are genuinely 'fit for purpose' in the 21st Century.

  Jonathon Porritt

  War, Thinking, Law

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• Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes — the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things — there is nothing to fall back on.

  Josette Sheeran

  Jobs, War, Fall

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• For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has offset the power of capital. But as national barriers have come down in the name of freer commerce, so has the capacity of governments to manage capitalism in a broad public interest. So the real issue is not "trade" but democratic governance.

  Robert Kuttner

  Real, Struggle, Democracies Have

  "Globalization and Its Critics". The American Prospect, Volume 12, July 2-16, 2001.

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• The Internet is not a thing, a place, a single technology, or a mode of governance. It is an agreement.

  John Gage

  Technology, Agreement, Internet

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• Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Democracy, Fundamentals, World

  Source: collider.com

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• When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.

  Desmond Tutu

  Competition, Prejudice, Looks

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.

  Aga Khan IV

  Religious, Agree Upon, Space

  Address at the Leadership and Diversity Conference, Gatineau, Canada, May 19, 2004.

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• Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set of laws for governing an empire, prescribed death for anyone who harbored a fugitive or otherwise helped a slave to escape. The relationship between the law and bondage goes back even farther: Indeed, the oldest extant legal documents don't concern the sale of land, houses, or even animals, but slaves.

  Derrick Jensen

  Animal, Law, Land

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “The Culture of Make Believe”, p.60, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Thinking, Government, Long

  "President Museveni Says Long Ruling Good for Africa" by Tabu Butagira, www.thecitizen.co.tz. February 20, 2012.

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• 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

  Country, West, Rich

  Jeremy Seabrook (2003). “The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty”, p.70, Verso

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• Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

  Rebecca MacKinnon

  Way

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• On a craggy bluff above the majestic Ottawa River stands the remarkable embodiment of our system of governance: Parliament.

  John Allen Fraser

  Rivers, Ottawa, Embodiment

  John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

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• Divide and rule is the way Congress does their politics while we say let's unite and do development.

  Narendra Modi

  India, Doe, Development

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• Nation is one. We will not work for Hindus or Muslims, we will work for the people of India.

  Narendra Modi

  People, India, Nations

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• We want a good government that works. Let us rise above caste divisions and nepotism and pledge to elect a government that is development oriented. Delhi needs a stable government and a strong government

  Narendra Modi

  Strong, Government, India

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• Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji gave the mantra- Insaniyat, Jamhooriyat, Kashmiriyat. He based Jammu and Kashmir's development on this, and we need to take it ahead.

  Narendra Modi

  Kashmir, India, Needs

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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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