Responsive Governance Quotes

He serves his party best who helps to make it instantly responsive to every need of the people.

You have to adapt your policies to changing circumstances.

When you see a Donald Trump and a Bernie Sanders, very unconventional candidates, have considerable success, then obviously there's something there that's being tapped into; a suspicion on globalization, a desire to reign in it's excesses, a suspicion of elites and governing institutions that people feel may not be responsive to their immediate needs. And that sometimes gets wrapped up in issues of ethnic identify or religious identity or cultural identity, and that can be a volatile mix.

We have to make the bureaucracy accountable to the people. It is not something esoteric, it can be done.

We want the government of this country to realize that it has customers and that it has to be customer friendly.

We want to respond quickly to urgent needs, but a speedy response should not be used as an excuse to trample full and free debate.

France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

I would like to tell you as the president of the republic, I am not embarrassed to listen to the Youth of my country and to respond to them.

I think the important thing is for the president to show action. The people in America want to know that we're listening to them and their concerns.

How do we build an intelligent plan for growth over decades while responding to citizen’s immediate demands for less inequality and more opportunity. We must do both.

Our policy is very clear: whatever policy will suit the people, whatever policy will suit the circumstances, whatever policy will suit my state.

Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases. Government that's not particularly caring and is hands-off is not particularly inspiring.

People want government to deliver - here and now.

But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.

I think people across America want a leader who's actually going to listen to them.

We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.

We Indians … are so good at respecting outward forms while ignoring the substance. We took the forms of parliamentary democracy, preserved them, put them on pedestal and paid them due obeisance. But we ignored the basic fact that parliamentary democracy can only work if those who run it are constantly responsive to needs of the people and if parliamentarians are qualified enough to legislate. Neither condition was fulfilled in India for long.

We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.

Russia, as well as any other country, does not need dictators, but it needs equitable principles of organizing the state and society: just, effective, flexibly responding to changes inside and outside the country - that is what Russia needs.

Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.

Look, Americans will go for leadership that makes sense. Our job, you know, as public officials, is not to put our finger in the air. Our job is to listen, and then lead.

Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.

The ways of change are dictated by the circumstances of each country, each place and each time. I don't think that arrogant intellectuals should be dictating to the people which way they should be heading. I think we should be listening to the people, see in which directions things are developing. People are walking where they can, not where they want to. But they are walking!