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Governance Quotes
"Direct benefit transfer is a big reform. Earlier who knew where MNREGA money was going? Now it is sent by DBT. So are gas subsidy payments and student scholarships. For me all these are reforms in governance, transparency."
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"The administration of a country, more than any other human activity, is carried on in the atmosphere of moral compromise."
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"M-governance is empowered governance. It has the potential to make development a truly inclusive and comprehensive mass movement. It puts governance into everyone's reach. It puts governance in your hands 24/7."
"The More Citizens Conform To The Law Of Love. The Less Governing Would Be Required."
"Government programmes can't only be held in New Delhi. We have ventured out in the states & organised important programmes there."
"First, we need to focus government on the things that are required of the State. Second, we need to achieve competence in government so that the State delivers on the things it sets out to do."
"Jan Bhagidari is the biggest asset of a democracy. We are increasing it through MyGov, letters from citizens, Mann Ki Baat and other initiatives"
"The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy."
"Earthly authorities respect only visible and tangible forces."
"The government can make laws but they can't make people live by these laws."
"I contested elections on the issue of development. It's my conviction, it's my commitment. Youngsters of the country believe in development. And it is development that is the solution to all the problems."
"What is Maximum Governance, Minimum Government? It means government has no business to be in business."
"The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall."
"Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart."
"Development has to be achieved collectively and it has to be quick paced and inclusive."
"Its important to create an atmosphere where everybody can contribute. The energy of 125 crore Indians will take the nation ahead."
"Before (the NDA) came to power, there was an atmosphere of despair. Newspapers were filled with news of corruption. People had lost hope. But we changed the situation. And today, after two more years of our Government, I can say with certainty that there is hope not just in the people of this country, the trust of entire world has grown in India."
"It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land."
"First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve."
"A year ago, a nation of 1.25 billion people voted for change and progress in the largest democratic election in human history. We are conscious that our challenges are vast across India's immense social and economic diversity but we draw confidence from the unity of our nation. Even more, we get our energy from the aspirations of a young India, with 800 million youth under the age of 35 years."
"Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago."
"God himself made government and gave it an environment of the kingdom."
"My focus is on governance. Country has been at greatest loss because governments were run only for elections. Governments must not run only for elections. The government should be a bona fide attempt of meeting the demands and expectations of the common people."
"Take for instance, a society where the prevailing value system is that you only go into politics and leadership to serve and not to make money. In such a nation, people know that those who go into politics and leadership come out of it poorer than they went in."
"France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions."
"We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise."
"If a country complains that they don't have good leaders, those leaders are only as a result of the prevailing value system that every citizen of that country has been exposed to."
"If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee."
"In our country, only what is talked about is seen as reform. If it isn't talked about, it isn't seen as reform. It shows our ignorance. My mantra is reform to transform, and I say in my government - Reform, Perform and Transform."
"It is possible to have a rather tranquil political atmosphere in any given nation. The secret is to put truth and honesty as the foundation of the political structure in that nation."
"God rules through light."
"As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness."
"This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural."
"As long as ordinary citizens are as corrupt as the politicians in their daily lifestyle, the country will continue to suffer."
"My mantra is Development". It means food on every table, every child in school, a job for everybody and a house with toilet and electricity for every family. This can be achieved through unity. Unity strengthens us. Division weakens us."
"My aim is to reform to transform. For me, reforms are those policies that transform the lives of ordinary citizens. In the last two years, we have taken a comprehensive package of reforms which go beyond more economic reforms."
"Any nation that teaches and make there people look for miracles are making their people weak."
"Only being an administrator & controller is not enough. Everybody, at every level, has to be an agent of change. Initiatives have succeeded when 'Jan Bhagidari' is embraced."
"The level of corruption in a country is determined by the value systems of that country."
"When there is no personal responsibility in any society, there cannot be a responsible government."
"Responsible government is an off shoot of a culture of personal responsibility."
"It is only when the proper value system is well embraced by the populace that a country begins to produce God fearing leaders that are free from the mentality of eating from the national cake."
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