Jose Rizal Quotes

The people are way ahead of the Congress. They are way ahead of the administration.

In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.

You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

E governance can bring minimum government and maximum governance. It is easy, effective and economic governance. It brings empowerment, equity and efficiency of the economy. It is a very useful field that can be the greatest problem solver of the people.

The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

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

One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.

Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.

Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before.

Legislating should be done in a manner that is understandable to the governed.

Turning politics into a spectator sport is one of the subtle processes which supports globalization. It converts or transforms the citizen from an actor to a spectator, with illusions of participation.

We have bureaucracy that doesn't really understand what the people want.

If the American people are going to support a policy than they had better be made to understand the rationale.

Self government cannot work if the people do not know what their rulers are doing and why.

The most basic building block of any successful government is, first and foremost, a moral authority over the people it leads.

Since last year, our politics have become very anxiety-ridden, and President Xi is facing passive resistance across the country. There is widespread inaction from local elites and local governments. Nobody opposes, but nobody does anything.

The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they're doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst.

I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.

Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.

What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.

Bradley Manning should be regarded as a hero. He is doing what an honest, decent citizen should be doing: letting your population know what the government, the people who rule you are doing. They want to keep it secret of course.

It is among the evils, and perhaps not the smallest, of democratical governments, that the people must feel before they will see. When this happens they are roused to action. Hence it is that those kinds of government are so slow.

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we don't make government responsive to the people, we don't make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.