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The Chief Whip's job is trying to make sure that the Government - and MPs elected as part of the governing party - deliver the promises that they were elected on. That's a healthy part of the democratic process.

~Geoff Hoon

Topics: Chief Deliver Democratic Democratic Process Elected Governing Government Healthy Job Make Part Party Process Promises Sure Trying Were Whip

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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

Topics: Also Every Good Good Government Government Governments Including Just Lies Media Operate Organisations Other Part Public Responsibility System Themselves

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The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: Been City Government Investment Just Knowledgeable Known London Made Matched Never Silicon Technology Tradition Understanding U.s. Government Valley Vast

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Europe has shown how government can be organised in a network. Its institutions both compete and co-operate and include a directly elected parliament that does not appoint the executive, independent judiciaries and a complex set of relationships between the Commission, the Council of Ministers and the Parliament.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: Appoint Between Both Commission Compete Complex Council Directly Does Elected Europe Executive Government How Include Independent Institutions Ministers Network Organised Parliament Relationships Set Shown

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A lot of people in government don't really read books at all.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: Books Government Lot People Read Really

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As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: Academia Alcohol Brought Charge Civil Complex Crops Government Including Many Nuclear Outside People Problems Proliferation Reform Schools Science Servant Solving Strategy Unit Work Gm

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Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and across continental Europe the figures are more like several thousand.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: Across Average Big Continental England Europe Figures Government Like Local Local Government Lowest More Our Population Serve Several Simply Thousand Too While

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Many people leave government disillusioned about its ability to achieve change and cynical about politicians. I left with rather opposite lessons.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: Ability About Achieve Change Cynical Disillusioned Government Leave Left Lessons Many Opposite People Politicians Rather

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Now that neural nets work, industry and government have started calling neural nets AI. And the people in AI who spent all their life mocking neural nets and saying they'd never do anything are now happy to call them AI and try and get some of the money.

~Geoffrey Hinton

Topics: Ai Anything Call Calling Get Government Happy Industry Life Mocking Money Nets Never Now People Saying Some Spent Started Them Try Who Work

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Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

~Georg Buchner

Topics: Body Garment Government Must People Tightly Transparent Which

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