Long-Term Governance Quotes

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin of safety. If taxes and debt are made all the people can bear when times are good, there will be certain disaster when times are bad.

I do not want a one-term Labor Government that dazzles for a moment and ends in disillusion. I want a Labor Government that governs for a generation and changes Britain for good.

The one thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee - they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort to an idea that became a country - was a nation governed by professional politicians who had an interest in getting re-elected. They probably envisioned a fellow serving a couple of hitches and then eagerly looking forward to getting back to the farm.

The party has to be rebuilt on all levels. In a way, maybe it's to be expected when you've had a governor in office for 12 years and he and his people are stepping down.

You ... have done more than elect a President. You have created a new party that ought to hold power for twenty-five years.

The people who are fleeing Syria, they're the ones who need to run the country there long-term.

I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so.

Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance.

Governor is the only office I've ever run for, and I did so in the first place because I felt that there was a contribution I could make right now in governing for the long term and by leading by values. I ran for a second term to finish the work we started. I'll finish this out and return to the private sector, which I enjoy and miss in some ways.