This election is not about ideology. It's about competence.
Referring to the 1988 presidential campaign:
I have rarely seen the government do anything that was effective.
The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.
He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor, because the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place for him to be.
We tend to look at countries in terms of failed states and functioning states, which is rather simplistic.
The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.
I think the fact that we have been focussing on politics quite a lot and the tumult of politics rather than what we should be doing in terms of policy has made, I think, voters quite grumpy.
No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.
Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.
No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.
