Government Management Quotes

You can call anyyne here or call me. We have no formal chain of command.

American and world history show that if you want minimal government, you can have it—but only if you want almost everyone in your society also to be a dirt-poor, subsistence farmer. If you want a prosperous, growing modern economy, you need high specialization and a huge, complex, interdependent network of individuals, businesses, research centers and education. And only government has the authority or money to regulate that network and to regularly pump in the targeted funds needed to sustain and grow it.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

The nanny state

The President was a responsibility beyond that of managing the government. He has a responsibility as a moral leader.

President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.

The first essential for a Prime Minister is to be a good butcher.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.

The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.

When Republicans say they want to run government 'like a business,' they apparently mean 'run government like a Trump casino headed straight for bankruptcy court.'

Running a business is not the same as being president of the United States.

Government doesn’t always work the way its supposed to. Sometimes you have to use brute force, bring people together …

Choose the manager of your government as you would the manager of your private business.

[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.

If we just charged everyone one percent of the value of contracts they execute, that is all the money we would need for operating our government.

We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have line item vetoes, and if I didn't, we'd probably be out of business by now.

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

A well conducted government must have an underlying concept so well integrated that it could be likened to a system of philosophy. All actions taken must be well reasoned, and all financial, political and military matters must flow towards one goal, which is the strengthening of the state and the furthering of its power.

Taking care of a border security is one of the issues that government has to manage. It is not to be politicised to win votes and gain sympathy.

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

The deficit had become a symbol of our inability to control and manage the cost of government.

The present King and Queen are popular, very, and increasingly so, but they have no message for the Labour Party who believe them, and rightly I fear, to be but the puppets of a Palace clique…. Still, it is the aristocracy which still rules England although nobody seems to believe it.

It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?