Governance Improvement Quotes

Historically Turkey hasn't had much success in attracting foreign investment. Slowly that is changing. There's a tradition of arbitrary decisions by government ministers and senior civil servants, which would ruin businesses from one day to the next, and which has tended to deter foreign investment. That's changing, and convergence with E.U. practices is a good thing in that it improves governance.

The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world.

In China, we are considering ways of resolving our problems by improving our institutions.

I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.

EU didn't advance our [Eastern Europe] democracy by a single millimeter.

Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various levels of Government, in work practices and procedures.

The backbone of any improvement of governance, its development as well as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is a mechanism to place laws under the microscope of revision and modernization until they resonate in tune with the methodological development and new administrative technologies.

As a matter of fact, it's in our interests that we help reformers across the Middle East achieve their objectives. This is the fundamental challenge of the 21st century.

The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations.

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

If Indonesia improves governance of the fisheries sector and invests in large-scale maritime transport, it can double fish production by 2019.

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