Kiichi Miyazawa Quotes

Policy making is not as easy as slurping down cabbage soup.

So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.

Government has much wider dimensions than merely managing an economy.

The job of government is to govern. They ought to get on with it.

Good or bad, political choices have an impact on the way country’s behave.

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.

President el-Sisi of Egypt took over in a very complicated environment. He needed to give a new direction. It is quite a difficult job.

Democratic government is difficult. It is much more difficult than populists claim. It's not like running a business or a police force. It demands compromise.

I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

Things said by political parties are different from the decisions of the government which are taken to uphold the rule of law. The government takes decisions that are best for the country.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but it's the same skills.

Most of the energy devoted to political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

When you are President you have to get something done, and that often means compromise.

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

Government is about hard choices.

Public policy must lead and not merely react.

You cannot make elected officials … do what they will not do.

Politics is the art of knowing and leading a multitude ... not where they want to go but where they should go.

Are the governors such exceptionally gifted men as to enable them … to represent the masses and act in the interests of all men better than all men would be able to act for themselves?

To govern is to chose.

There's too little sense in the State Department of why things happened.

This business of heads of governments stepping into aeroplanes and flying off to talk things over with one another may well start a new era in diplomacy.

Government is like fire. If it is kept within bounds and under the control of the people, it contributes to the welfare of all. But if it gets out of place, it gets too big and out of control, it destroys the happiness and even the lives of the people.