Quotes On: Governance

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.