Ability Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.

— Irrfan Khan

No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and industrial enterprises…

— Theodore Roosevelt

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

— Laozi

In power politics, it's usually not enough to be liked. A nation has to be considered essential.

— Richard Cohen

Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.

— Bruce Sterling

You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Basically, if you have above-average intelligence, you have common sense and you can speak in front of a camera and to a crowd, you…

— Jerry Brown

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

— Thomas Jefferson

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

— Anonymous

There is a lot of talent in our country that needs to be exploited.

— Jeetendra