Administration Quote by Annie Besant

It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.

— Thomas Jefferson

Governments are run by people. People can be bad.

— Jesse Ventura

There are people in communities who are actually out there fighting poverty eye-to-eye, soul-to-soul, in neighborhoods that actually do well, that succeed. But for…

— Paul Ryan

On housing, education and skills, health and social care, transport and economic development, local government is better placed to make decisions in the interests…

— Wes Streeting

Local government is a gamble that can have disastrous consequences when it fails.

— Joy Reid

Individuals usually do a better job than the government.

— Rob Lowe

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

— Martin Van Buren

That is one of the reasons why we have raised this matter about the need to focus quite sharply on the function of local…

— Thabo Mbeki

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

— Henry David Thoreau

Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.

— Matthew Lesko

The more things a government undertakes to do, the fewer things it can do completely. When the government tries to do everything it must…

— Henry Hazlitt

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never…

— Cormac McCarthy