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Governance Quotes
"The hatred the 'Christian' right wing harbors for the SA Constitution is not htere because of an absence of 'God' in state machinery and the excised phrase 'in humble submission to almighty God' - but because it no longer places THEM in a position to claim that THEY represent the will of that 'God' and to act as though it were true."
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"Some people are good only because they are afraid of punishment. These justify why we need government."
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"While a democratic process is morally desirable for arriving at a decision, it doesn't necessarily produce the best outcomes."
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"Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are."
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"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."
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"On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government."
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"This apartment, which you no doubt profanely suppose to be the shop of Will Wimble the undertaker --a man whom we know not, and whose plebeian appellation has never before this night thwarted our royal ears --this apartment, I say, is the Dais-Chamber of our Palace, devoted to the councils of our kingdom, and to other sacred and lofty purposes."
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"The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office."
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"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."
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"For the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have."
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"Any nation that teaches and make there people look for miracles are making their people weak."
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"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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"They despite and hate the government more and more, but they don't know how to set about changing it. The country is dying for some sort of lead, and so far all it is getting is a crowd of fresh professional leaders. Who never get anywhere. Who do not seem to be aiming anywhere. We are living in a world of jaded politics. Poverty increases, prices rise, unemployment spreads, mines, factories stagnate, and nothing is done."
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"Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders."
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"Always remember: When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves."
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"One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part of civil servants. They ought to have the right, and, on occasion, the duty, to frame Bills in their own names, and set forth publicly the arguments in their favor."
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"The level of corruption in a country is determined by the value systems of that country."
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"Responsible government is an off shoot of a culture of personal responsibility."
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"Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion."
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"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."
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"Either cry for exchanging new currency notes for couple of days or crib for corruption for ages and generations with old one. Choice is yours."
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"Let us remind our leaders that there is no place for personal interests in politics."
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