Adlai Stevenson I Quotes

What matters is not a simple sense of an issue’s salience, but whether a government can shape outcomes on it, where there is the greatest likelihood that the parties will actually be able to implement their policies.

Better a hundred times an honest and capable administration of an erroneous policy than a corrupt and incapable administration of a good one.

Successful and unsuccessful political policies have one commonalty. The people who created the policies thought they would be successful.

If you can’t bring the people with you, you lose the policy

Whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it. For this purpose it must be somebody's business to pursue and direct it incessantly.

I don't think we do a great job in America any more of distinguishing between campaigns and governance. We live in an environment that's all campaign all of the time and it's helpful, now that we've moved beyond a campaign and an election to get into a governance posture.

We are tackling the inefficiency and corruption that has long plagued the New Orleans Housing Authority.

All policy is targeted in one way or another.

Government does not have basic business sense.

What succeeds best politically does not always do so policy wise and vice versa.

Personnel is policy.

In government, you're not a writer, you're an administrator.

It is not the intelligence community's place to set and implement policy.

It's really important that policy be properly designed. It's not enough just to.. .get angry over a subject.

Radical socio-economic transformation is a policy of the ANC. As a leader of the ANC, you have to implement the policy. When I talk about radical socio-economic transformation, it's not my thing; it's an ANC policy.

Jayalalitha has turned out to be a failure as chief minister.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

I cannot think of a president or administration that has taken seriously the 100 days.

I'm an implementer of policy, not a maker of policy.

Keeping government running really well, to me, is incredibly important.

India lived in hopelessness, as the government was not responsive. It did not know what the poor needed. There was complete policy paralysis. Corruption was rampant, and terrorists used to play havoc in the country.

Allowing staff to dictate frameworks and policy outcomes without appropriate checks by elected leaders has corrosive effects.

High-level corruption, inefficiency, non-governance, and policy paralysis have crippled the nation's economy.

Naidu boasts of governance but does not understand what governance means.

Karnataka was known for its good governance. After the BJP came to power, they laid the foundation for bad administration.