Corazon Aquino Quotes

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

The government cannot put a chocolate on every one of their pillows and tuck them in at night.

Government cannot be all things to all people.

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.

My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public is to make sure that the public sector can use all the skills it needs to do the job the public wants it to do.

The government pretends to be endowed with the mystical power to accord favors out of an inexhaustible horn of plenty. It is both omniscient and omnipotent. It can by a magic wand create happiness and abundance. The truth is the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody.

The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services.

In China, national priorities are established by the Government and then funded by the state; in India, priorities emerge from seemingly endless discussions and arguments amongst myriad interests, and funds have to be found where they might.

Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.

We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

Frankly, we don't have the resources to go everywhere and do everything.

One of the problems of being a prime minister is that you can't do what people want all at once.

Very few governments have the money to meet the needs of their people….The private sector has most of the resources.

Among practical men the idea prevails that government can do nothing but 'keep the peace”.

We were under resourced and understudied .

No government ought to guarantee perfect security because no government can provide it.

The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at all.

As chief of staff, I was responsible for running a multibillion-dollar organization with over 34,000 employees, and working on everything from health care to transportation.

The more things a government undertakes to do, the fewer things it can do completely. When the government tries to do everything it must do everything badly.

Governments can do lots of things, but there are a lot of things they cannot do. A government can provide good housing, but folks can have a house without having a home. We can keep people breathing with good health care, but they still may not really be alive.

I left the government because I saw the only way to get family planning moving, was to do it outside the government. I was never disillusioned with government.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.