Governance Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• Gujarat's e-governance projects have been recognized in the country and abroad. To give a few examples- Gujarat has the largest Wide Area Network in the Asia Pacific. It is the first State to provide broadband connectivity in all schools and villages. It makes maximum use of video-conferencing including trial of the prisoners. Gujarat's ICT based Grievance Redressal System called SWAGAT has got the United Nation's Public Service Award. In addition, it has received eleven national awards for our various e-services.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, School, Awards

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• Technology enables last mile delivery. Blending it with the will and determination to deliver, Gujarat has experienced the true power of e-governance.

  Narendra Modi

  Determination, Technology, True Power

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

  Narendra Modi

  Moving, People, India

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• If you want to be free, or you want to preserve freedom for people, you both need to have laws that make it so people have freedom of speech and all the freedoms that they need. You also need to have an open governance system where people can vote and people have representation.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Law, People, Freedom Of Speech

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• The way in which we can promote peace, is by promoting sustainable management of our resources, equitable distribution of these resources, and that the only way you can actually do that, is that then you have to have a political, economic system that facilitates that. And then you get into the issues of human rights, justice, economic justice, social justice, and good governance or democratic governance. That's how it ties up.

  Wangari Maathai

  Rights, Issues, Ties

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.

  Beth Simone Noveck

  Technology, Democracy, Election

  "Evolving Democracy for the 21st Century" by Beth Simone Noveck, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

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• Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

  Believe, Home, Goal

  "The Impact of Israel’s Internal Politics" by Edgar M. Bronfman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2010.

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• The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of any orderly progress and governance of things: the men of genius propound solutions which grow into systems of Theology or of Philosophy, or veiled in musical language which suggests more than it asserts, take the shape of the Poetry of an epoch.

  Thomas Huxley

  Philosophy, Men, Infidelity

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.66, University of Georgia Press

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• It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Democracies Have, Government, Law

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.175, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm not a writer who's preaching some particular philosophy or something but the big questions do concern me and I like to make my readers think and debate and argue with each other and look at some aspect of the world or some act of governance or war or power and have an angle they haven't considered before, and that's something I strive for and hopefully have accomplished.

  George R. R. Martin

  Philosophy, War, Thinking

  "EIBF 2014: George R.R. Martin on Game Of Thrones, writing". www.denofgeek.com. August 15, 2014.

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• M-governance is empowered governance. It has the potential to make development a truly inclusive and comprehensive mass movement. It puts governance into everyone's reach. It puts governance in your hands 24/7.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, Hands, India

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