Public Management Quotes

The public must be put in its place...so that each of us can live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

Really, a critical matter in the public service is radically to improve the quality of management.

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty reasoning on policy, and vain conjectures on the public management.

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

In business, we use certain principles to measure performance, and I envision applying those principles in the public sector.

For elites, the politics of governing is seen as a continual struggle to manage public emotions so that they do not overwhelm sound public policy.

I’m not ready to hand over power to people or groups of people who have no ability to manage a nation.

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

There is no reason why government should not be as efficient as any good business.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

We are looking at how you change the relationship between central and local government and how to use public resources to the best effect at the local level.

If you vote for candidates who think it's the role of the state to provide health care, don't complain when your hospitals are as badly run as everything else run by the state.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

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.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.

I do think there are some irreducible inefficiencies in government. But we still need to have government; we still need to make government effective if we can.

If a politician is a successful administrator, certainly he has got every right to administer cricket.

We can't do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.

There is no remedy for the inefficiency of public management.

What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.

First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.

Those who use our public services should be able to deal directly with those who manage and deliver them.

Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

Procurement policies of all of the major parastatals, it is a very important element of that processes that will continue.