Every nation has the government it deserves. Toute nation a le government qu'elle merite.
Every country has the government it deserves.
People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.
Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation is as good as the enforcement of it.
Better a hundred times an honest and capable administration of an erroneous policy than a corrupt and incapable administration of a good one.
Governance is a universal phenomenon in any society, but it may not lead a society to human development.
However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.
I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
People like Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi, who have spent Rs 500 crore to build their brands, will take that money back from us only. How can they deliver good governance?
A limited government is much more likely to be a competent government.
The government of heaven, if wickedly administered, would become one of the worst governments upon the face of the earth. No matter how good a government is, unless it is administered by righteous men, an evil government will be made of it.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.
The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular provisions, though not altogether useless, have far less virtue and efficacy than are commonly ascribed to them; and the want of them will never be with men of sound discernment a decisive objection to any plan which exhibits the leading characters of a good government.
