State Management Quotes

Any cook should be able to run the country.

We invite our friends who hold high positions in the legislative branch of government and state institutions to master the skills of administration, so they could, when the time comes, reform the Turkish state and make it more fruitful at all its levels in the name of Islam.

My opinion is that the Northern States will manage somehow to muddle through.

He [the king] must also appoint other officials, men of integrity, who are wise, firm, well able to collect money, and well tried.

What is required in Muslim countries today is a jurisprudence of the state, which operates at the broader level of national and societal interests.

A government of statesmen or of clerks? Of Humbug or of Humdrum?

Beyond going around doing things as Secretary of State, you have to recognize that you had managerial responsibilities.

One must realise that it is not a child's play to run a government.

Governing the people's affairs is one of the greatest religious obligations.

You can’t govern a country on charisma.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

The difference between those who fail to achieve their goals in life and those who succeed is the difference between those who cannot put themselves in a supportive state and those who can consistently put themselves in a state that supports them in their achievements.

I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively. And the net effect was, during my eight years, 1.3 million jobs were created. We left the state better off because I applied conservative principles in a purple state the right way, and people rose up.

Every cook or every laborer cannot govern the state.

A major part of the conservative plans to reform Medicaid turn on the assumption that states will be better able to manage the program, and deliver its benefits, free from all the intrusive regulation that Washington imposes.

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

Thus it happens in matters of state; for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the evils that are brewing, they are easily cured. But when, for want of such knowledge, they are allowed to grow so that everyone can recognize them, there is no longer any remedy to be found.

You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.

I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.

When you take into public ownership a profitable industry the profits soon disappear. The goose that laid the golden eggs goes broody. State geese are not great layers.

Mitch Daniels in Indiana was the best governor in America for eight years. I've gone to Indianapolis to study with him.

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

And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

Politics is different than business.