Annastacia Palaszczuk Quotes

You have to govern like you've got a majority. It doesn't matter whether it's one seat, five or 10 seats.

We will govern as if we had a majority. You simply carry on with your agenda.

A minority government can't govern without support from other parties.

Under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, it is possible for other parties to change the direction of a government without bringing a government down.

To carry out my mission, I need a stable majority.

Our system of government in Israel has permitted minority groups and sectarian parties to force their way on the majority.

The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties.

And under our system, much like you see in the U.K., of course, a party working with another party can form a coalition and govern the country.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.

Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.

Our government is a little more chaotic than most other governments in the world.

One cannot enforce major reforms with slim majorities.

The vote is the most effective and merciful instrument that man has devised to manage his affairs.

We've got to have a functioning government.

We have had political parties threatening to bring down the government, talking about it but not bringing down the government. What I am focused on is the things we are in control of. The timing of a general election, we don't have control over.

There always will naturally be some differences when you form the government with coalition parties. Even some single party governments also face several issues.

How can we even call this a Democracy when the House, the Senate, the White House, and now the Supreme Court are all controlled by the representatives of a minority group in America?

I don't think that split government is a good idea. Conventional wisdom in Washington for years has been that divided government is good because of a check and a balance. What I believe happens all too often, regardless of which party is there's gridlock. And I think the better argument is give one party a chance, give them a chance with a House and a Senate and a president. Give them a few years to see what they can do. And if you don't like it, put another party in.

If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

The country has always been governed by a coalition but today it is governed by a so-called Grand Coalition which is a more polite word for all and sundry.

The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular provisions, though not altogether useless, have far less virtue and efficacy than are commonly ascribed to them; and the want of them will never be with men of sound discernment a decisive objection to any plan which exhibits the leading characters of a good government.

We need our president to be successful because our futures are all tied to the success of America, which means America's government, which means, in essence, the president.