Imran Khan Quotes

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

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.

Choose the manager of your government as you would the manager of your private business.

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

Transparency is the key to good governance & e-governance is the only effective way of transparent governance.

I think we have a Tea Party mandate, and that Tea Party mandate is for good-government type of things, things like term limits, things like a balanced budget amendment, things like read the bills for goodness sakes, things like that maybe Congress should only pass legislation that they apply to themselves as well.

I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government.

I reiterate that the rigor and credibility brought to the world by Monti's government are for us a point of no return.

My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

I'm one who demands a lot from people. I'm not afraid to look at alternative ways in city government. That's what I've done in my two years and will continue to do in the next four.

I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local government.

Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local people make decisions about what's best for them.

I will run an open government that speaks with honesty, seeks opinion, listens to its citizens.

I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the public's trust.

And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: 'Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?' If you don't ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions.

I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician.

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.