Government Performance Quotes

People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.

I know that for most people, seeing is believing when it comes to government efficiency.

A good man should be on the PM's chair. The country's condition should improve. Only because of this I have supported Modi. You may call it a masterstroke or anything else.

People have to believe that government can work, and you have to show them that government can work.

I have a track record of under-promising and over-delivering, whether it's on the economy, border protection, welfare reforms.

Europeans tend to feel more positively about their governments than do Americans, for whom the failures and unpopularity of their federal, state, and local politicians are a commonplace. Yet Americans' various governments collect taxes and, in return, provide services without which they could not easily live their lives.

I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.

Approval ratings matter for politicians, largely for good reason. A leader with plummeting approval ratings ought to take note of the needs and hopes of his people.

I think we are smashing it as a government in terms of economic performance and infrastructure spend, but not everybody feels part of that success story.

If you expect democratic government will be efficient government, you will be disappointed.

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

I might be popular, but that is not sufficient in a parliamentary democracy set-up. One has to assess every chief minister, his success and rating in terms of how far he has succeeded in developing his colleagues.

One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.

A President must always be given credit for all his administration's successes and the final blame for the failures.

[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.

Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.

The question today is not whether the government is too small or too small, but whether or not it works

This government, unlike the last government, is actually governing.

The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.

Tony Blair was a good politician but not a good Prime Minister, and that's what we don't want to be. We don't want to be just people who are good at winning elections: we want to be good at governing. I think we benefit from having seen the mistakes that we think Tony Blair made in 1997.

The Republican party is not perfect, but if you put this party's record of achievements on one side of a balance scale and the Democrat's record on the other, the Republican side would slam the table.

You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.

I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it?