Jay Weatherill Quotes

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

The job of government is to govern. They ought to get on with it.

If you're in government, the right thing to do is be focused on solving real problems and asking what's the best solution to a particular problem.

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.

I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less.

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

Government is not for the short-winded.

Governing is about selecting.

Politicians can’t just point to problems. They need to propose solutions.

The question of our time is rapidly becoming can government get things done?

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.

People have seen the Modi government's track record, and now they believe that if we say something, it will happen.

Government should do a few things, and do them right

Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.

Let's have Michael Bloomberg run the whole thing. Did a great job on this stuff in New York. If you want to spend at least what we already are on the poor but actually get results, go for it!

In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative.

The people of New Jersey sent me to Congress because they are tired of partisan gridlock. They want to see our Congress get to work on legislation that will make people's lives better.

I'm not prepared to be governor of New York. I'm a radio guy; I do a radio show. A radio show is entertainment. You need to move it along. When does a politician move anything along?

The fact is the American people want men and women to stand up and represent them and to put their interests ahead of the party interests.

Hillary Clinton's time in the Senate indicates she is happier being a policy workhorse than a show horse.

We consistently allow politicians to get away with playing identity politics rather than demanding evidence of what they're going to do and how they're going to do it.

My focus has been on being a good congressman, and there is so much other work to do.

The problem is that there is no reliable source of information left, no way to accumulate trusted accounts of the plusses and minuses of any given political choice.

I'm prepared to mentor any political group, even PAP chaps can come to me, I'll still mentor them. Because the objective must be very clear: you want to train people who will be good MPs. MPs who will think of Singapore first.

In a mature democracy any proposed policy should be subjected to a close analysis of its likely benefits and costs.