Narendra Modi Quotes

The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

The reform of government needs to continue.

We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy.

It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.

I have changed the style of functioning of the government and administration and managed to change the perception.

We need to do a top/bottom review of the federal government and for every agency administration bureaucracy that is not called for in the United States Constitution, we have to really ask the question what is its purpose, how many people work there, how much does it cost the taxpayers and what is the value to our society.

I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.

It took a firm hand, sometimes a fist, to imbue a bureaucracy this vast with effective compassion.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

The demand of our people in 1980 is not for smaller government or bigger government but for better government.

It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.

Incredibly, whenever I have proposed the theory that half of government workers could be cut, current and former federal employees I know have all agreed.

I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

It turns out that in the federal government, there are a lot of innovators.

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.

Challenging vested interests requires a government's full commitment.

I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990.

If you are really interested in making government work, you should have the experience of working in government.

From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.

The last thing we need to do now is reorganize and create a new department.

… the admirable purpose of Cabinet Ministers, bent on reforming their different departments, but dexterously 'blocked' by the permanent officials

A revolution has taken place within the government but it has not yet penetrated civil society.