Country Management Quotes

He can't spend all his time running his mouth; he's got to run the country.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.

I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.

The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.

Who in the world wants to run a country where the new norm is one where there are no jobs?

Being a cabinet minister is not like running a company. A country is not a company.

If the traditional British elite had made a great success of running my country, as successful, say, as the elites of Germany, Japan and America, then maybe it would be a club worth joining.

For running a country, team work is important, and the person at the helm has to enjoy teamwork.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

It’s a big country; it needs a lot of regulation.

The civil servants will always be there to look after this country. So don't worry... Any political party taking power will have to work with the civil servants who are very well acquainted with running this country.

You can’t govern a country on charisma.

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

The Founding Fathers didn’t intend for the lawyers to run this country

It was very obvious to me that we could not do this, we could not run a country that we did not understand...it was very much amateur hour to me, with all respect.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

The responsibility of a public official is to make the country work!

If you were to do it again, you'd probably do some things differently. But the decision is right to have a single entity manage the water and the waste water for a country.

The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country.

You can't manage [country] the way you would manage a family business.

The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country.

In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.

A country is not a business and a government should stand for much more than economic efficiency.

We Greeks want change. We know there are problems in our system. We have great potential but we need to manage our country well. Now that hasn't been done over the last decades. And that is, of course, what we are paying for.

You need, in order to run a country as diverse as ours, a prominently recognized news source.