Government Quality Quotes

In a democracy, people usually get the kind of government they deserve, and they deserve what they get.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

Knowledge is the cause as well as the effect of good government

To have good government, you often need less, not more, democracy.

In the final analysis, a democratic government represents the sum total of the courage and the integrity of its individuals. It cannot be better than they are.

There is no right government except good government.

Good political leadership is good government. What we need is more good political leadership.

If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government.

No government is better than the men who compose it.

Anything would be better in the US than what you have. As a government it's really very low quality, given the fact that this country produces eminent intellectuals, has great universities, and then the people who arrive in government are very mediocre. The Latin American situation has been very different in the first place, because writers have spoken for those who have no voice. The rate of illiteracy, poverty, joblessness in Latin America has been so great throughout our history that if the writers didn't speak out for the people, nobody would.

the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to increase productivity and competitiveness, improve the quality of government, and overcome the problems of illiteracy, miseducation, and unemployment.

American government has usually been pretty good in a crisis and pretty lousy at all other times.

Our Congress is not the best and the brightest. It is sad to see their behavior lowering the quality of our political discourse.

Good government is one of the most important factors in economic growth and social well-being.

It may be laid down as a general rule, that their confidence in and obedience to a government, will be commonly proportioned to the goodness or badness of its administration . . . . Various reasons have been suggested in the course of these papers, to induce a probability that the general government will be better administered than the particular governments.

With respect to the true monarchical government, it is the best or the worst of all others, accordingly as it is administered.

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.

Administration is the essence of government, and its quality is a prime condition of civic comfort.

Good government

We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

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