Creative Governance Quotes

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.

I won't have a cabinet as a President; I will have a closet. A giant walk-in closet with all styles of advisers, like Michael Kors, Kanye West, Diane von Furstenberg, Naughty by Nature, Stephen Hawking, Madonna, Karl Lagerfeld, and, of course, Tinkerbell.

Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

That's the government. Having been a politician and a musician, I can tell you which one is a higher calling. If musicians ran the country, it would be a much different place. We wouldn't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'd work late.