Top 40 Good Government Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Good Government Quotes from famous people such as James Fenimore Cooper, Jesse Ventura, Matthew Lesko, Brian Schweitzer, Joe Garcia, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unne

All that a good government aims at… is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.
James Fenimore Cooper
I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on everything they do is unpatriotic. I believe a patriot stands up and holds your government’s feet to the fire. Because if you do that, you will get good government.
Jesse Ventura
Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.
Matthew Lesko
I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on everything they do is unpatriotic. I believe a patriot stands up and holds your government’s feet to the fire. Because if you do that, you will get good government.
Jesse Ventura
Good ideas are the backbone of good government.
Brian Schweitzer
If you give everybody a good government job, there’s no crime.
Joe Garcia
To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government.
James L. Petigru
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
William E. Gladstone
The key message is I’m always trying to hope the Singaporeans will understand, is a question of every government must be… examined based on certain very fundamental principles to have a good government. You must have transparency.
Tan Cheng Bock
Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.
Matthew Lesko
If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in – then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.
Lincoln Steffens
Let those men who still have these misguided ideas, let those men who still have these hallucinations, realize that by anarchism, by dastardly crimes, they cannot bring about good government; let them realize that these methods have not succeeded in any country of the world and are not likely to succeed in India.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.
Lincoln Steffens
If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.
Jay Weatherill
A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.
Joseph Story
I am sure of my ability to form a good government.
Isaac Herzog
Let those men who still have these misguided ideas, let those men who still have these hallucinations, realize that by anarchism, by dastardly crimes, they cannot bring about good government; let them realize that these methods have not succeeded in any country of the world and are not likely to succeed in India.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
I think New Jersey’s process is actually a very good one – the good government. The governor presents the budget, you’ve got one-on-one meetings, you’ve got leadership meetings, you’ve got hearings, more importantly, that are transparent and open.
Phil Murphy
Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.
Anthony Albanese
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
William E. Gladstone
The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public.
Geoff Mulgan
Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.
Anthony Albanese
Good government is good politics.
Richard J. Daley
Good government is good politics.
Richard J. Daley
One’s ability to enter into thousands of lawsuits as a tool for success, or to use bankruptcy to avoid paying your former employees and vendors, have little relevance when trying to create good government.
John Hickenlooper
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
The essence of good government is trust.
Kathleen Sebelius
The key message is I’m always trying to hope the Singaporeans will understand, is a question of every government must be… examined based on certain very fundamental principles to have a good government. You must have transparency.
Tan Cheng Bock
Good government is one of the most important factors in economic growth and social well-being.
Joe Lonsdale
If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government.
Lincoln Steffens
I think New Jersey’s process is actually a very good one – the good government. The governor presents the budget, you’ve got one-on-one meetings, you’ve got leadership meetings, you’ve got hearings, more importantly, that are transparent and open.
Phil Murphy
One's ability to enter into thousands of lawsuits as a

One’s ability to enter into thousands of lawsuits as a tool for success, or to use bankruptcy to avoid paying your former employees and vendors, have little relevance when trying to create good government.
John Hickenlooper
People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.
James Bovard
Ordinary people want good government.
Subramanian Swamy
Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.
Linda Lingle
Good government has essentially broken down in the face of Brexit.
Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in – then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.
Lincoln Steffens
For some in Washington, it’s become sport to pick on the federal workforce. I think they do so unjustly. The very foundation of a stable America is having a government that functions well. Many countries have dysfunctional governments, because they don’t have a good government workforce.
Ken Salazar
Lifting the veil of secrecy that shrouds police misconduct allegations would seem like an obvious democratic value. After all, if police work for the people, should they not be answerable to the people, as well? This is a basic tenet of good government.
Maya Wiley
Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous.
Robert Green Ingersoll