Narendra Modi Quotes

India has been at the greatest loss because governments were run only for elections.

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

The reform of government needs to continue.

I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.

I did not love politics. As a matter of fact, I hated politics. I loved governing which is … a different thing.

Government should do a few things, and do them right

Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed.

We have moved from an age in which government leaders sought to do what was best for the people to one in which the political leadership is convinced it knows what is best for the people, whether they like it or not.

I don't know what our government does except put us into debt and blow up other countries.

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

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

One of the notable aspects of the democratic process is that one need not know anything about a subject in order to pass laws about it.

If you look at government policy generally, what government tries to do in all instances is to make sure that we take care of all elements that might relate to a particular issue.

In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.

Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.

No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart permit it to take part in the complicated and increasingly sophisticated decisions that pour not only upon the President and upon the Congress, but upon all the citizens who exercise the ultimate power.

My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that went to the heart of our way of life.

I am always suspicious of the formulation that "politics" has prevented a great idea from being enacted by government. Politics IS government, in a democratic society. It's a challenge for school reformers, like reformers in any realm, to build a popular constituency for their work. If the people it's supposed to benefit vote against it, that tells me that the person pushing reform lacks political skill. And political skill is a good thing.

All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people are the government. What we create we ought to be able to control.

The business of government is justice.

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.

We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.