B. R. Ambedkar Quotes

Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.

Democracy sounded well and good, but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title. Monarchy, on the contrary, has an unpleasant sound, but is a more practical form of government to live under. For it is easier to find a single excellent man, than to find many of them.

We don't need more government, we just need the government we have to work smarter and more efficiently.

Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.

It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones.

I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.

You have a good judicial system in the U.S., as you have learned from the Nixon-Watergate period.

A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.

Everybody has an idea of the kind of society they'd like to live in, and I would like to live in one where our senior politicians were spirited and original and possibly even good at what they do.

Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people.

The English constitution is founded on the principle of choosing a single sovereign authority and making it good.

It has been my philosophy all my life that good government is good politics.

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

Democracy requires a strong civil service—government employees who are sufficiently protected from random political influences to carry out the law in a disinterested fashion.

I sincerely wish we could see our government so secured as to depend less on the character of the person in whose hands it is trusted. Bad men will sometimes get in and with such an immense patronage may make great progress in corrupting the public mind and principles.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Listening ... is good government.

No government is better than the men who compose it.

Counter-corruption agencies cannot make a difference unless they are independent of the government actors they are supposed to monitor, restrain, and punish.

I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do better: for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or evaded by ill mend but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones.

The question today is not whether the government is too small or too small, but whether or not it works

I do think there are some irreducible inefficiencies in government. But we still need to have government; we still need to make government effective if we can.

E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.