Big deal Quote by Bruce Sterling

the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.

— Thomas Jefferson

It takes our government an awful lot of time to do most things competently, and that's part of the problem here.

— Kellyanne Conway

Government is not competent enough to regulate.

— James Cook

There are big questions about the sort of skills you need in modern government today. You put politicians in charge of billions of dollars…

— Tony Blair

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with…

— Bill Gates

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.

— W. Somerset Maugham

We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.

— Anita Roddick

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

— Anonymous

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.

— Alastair Reynolds

Government is not every body's job. It is a highly skilled vocation.

— George Bernard Shaw

We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

— William Howard Taft

You don't have good government unless you have good people working in government.

— Andy Kim