Top 100 Quotes About Governing
#1. Belief driven by determination is one key factor governing whether what you pursue becomes real or not.
Steven Redhead
#2. Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the age and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man;
Thomas Paine
#3. Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.
Robert Dallek
#5. We have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a purpose in governing the country, only a purpose in trying to hold together the fragile peace in the Labour Party
Andrew Lansley
#6. The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.
Pope Benedict XVI
#7. In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#8. In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righteous means, but whether he was successful in gaining power, in keeping it, and in governing; whether, in short, he was skilful at his particular craft or a bungler.
Frederick Scott Oliver
#9. I think it's just natural when you're governing, that it's not always easy to remain as pure in principle as you'd like to be.
Rona Ambrose
#10. It was easy to speak theoretically and idealistically about politics when one is seeking power. The demands of exercising it once it is won, however, are so complex and fluid that ideological certitude is often among the first casualties of actual governing.
Jon Meacham
#11. Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted.
Elliott Abrams
#12. To me, governing is communicating. That facilitates the whole job because I can listen, I can hear what people have to say, and at the same time I can let them know what are we working on, what is our strategic line, and where are we going.
Vicente Fox
#13. The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
Ludwig Von Mises
#14. Today, the people are governing the governments. And when they begin to talk to each other, they are surprised, they can be friends. Why should we hate each other?
Shimon Peres
#15. We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.
James Hilton
#16. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao-Tzu
#17. A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
Thomas Carlyle
#18. Well, it is true that they did - the Pentagon did impose rules for governing the handling of the Koran in January of 2003, after there had been complaints about the handling of the Koran from detainees, from the International Red Cross.
Michael Isikoff
#19. Every now and then, President Obama sorta drops his veil. He's less coy about his philosophy, he sort of reveals his true governing philosophy, what he really believes.
Paul Ryan
#20. Tony Blair was a good politician but not a good Prime Minister, and that's what we don't want to be. We don't want to be just people who are good at winning elections: we want to be good at governing. I think we benefit from having seen the mistakes that we think Tony Blair made in 1997.
George Osborne
#21. Your governing values should be important enough to you that you will invest your time, resources, and energy in making them a fundamental part of your life.
Hyrum W. Smith
#22. We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.
Vicente Fox
#23. The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn't even a worldwide governing board to hold all the various Orthodox bodies together.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
#24. The principles governing the speed at which the human organism can biologically adapt offer us the single greatest insight into why civilizations succeed and fail as well as the most reliable preview of our own destiny.
Rebecca D. Costa
#25. Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.
Bill Frist
#26. If the riders, governing bodies, teams, race organisers and media weren't doing anything about it, then what the hell could I, a 20-year-old neo-pro from Scotland, do about it?
David Millar
#27. The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
Stephen Ambrose
#28. 1 Let every aperson be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except bfrom God, and those which exist are established by God. 2Therefore he who resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves.
Anonymous
#29. As a Republic governed through the utilization of a democratic process, elections are necessary in order to give every United States citizen a voice in the governing of this great nation.
Byron Goines
#30. There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.
Tony Snow
#31. When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#32. History is full of religious wars; but, we must take care to observe, it was not the multiplicity of religions that produced these wars, it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
Montesquieu
#33. We shall be branded with the steel of clinging shame if we leave the Philippines to fall into a welter of bloody anarchy," he proclaimed, "instead of taking hold of them and governing them with righteousness and justice, in the interests of their own people even more than in the interests of ours.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#34. I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.
Samuel Johnson
#35. But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat.
Hunter S. Thompson
#36. Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined.
Brian Baird
#37. The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
Thomas Paine
#38. There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.
Dee Dee Myers
#39. And what hast thou gained by the government?" asked Ricote. "I have gained," said Sancho, "the knowledge that I am no good for governing,
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#40. Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.
Joseph Campbell
#41. It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.
Wendell Berry
#43. My governing principle as a critic is to call attention solely to books and writers that merit such attention, and to avoid whenever possible reviewing books "negatively" except in those instances in which the "negative" is countered by an admiring consideration of earlier books by the same author.
Joyce Carol Oates
#44. And maybe no better. There is no government in Mexico. Hell, there's no God in Mexico. Never will be. We are dealing with a people manifestly incapable of governing themselves. And do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.
Cormac McCarthy
#45. 'We the People' established the Constitution. Did we really do so to somehow keep ourselves out of the decision making. Are we only wise when it comes to electing people capable of governing our affairs, but wholly without the intellect to decide issues for ourselves?
Paul Jacob
#46. You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.
Gloria Steinem
#47. Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
Leo Tolstoy
#48. There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
Michel De Montaigne
#49. I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
#50. Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
Woodrow Wilson
#51. He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
Seneca The Younger
#52. I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do.
George Pataki
#53. Revolution consists not in the new class commanding, governing with the aid of the old state machine, but in this class smashing this machine and commanding, governing with the aid of a new machine.
Vladimir Lenin
#54. Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me.
M. E. Lazarus
#55. Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
Laozi
#56. Fascism is a revolutionary force, it wants to destroy the established order and take its place - take its money, its businesses, everything it has because, to these people, the governing class in Europe is hesitant, ineffective, effete. So, destroy it.
Alan Furst
#57. The governing ideal was not merely to keep up with the Joneses, but to be the Joneses - to own the same model of car or dishwasher or lawn mower.
Chris Anderson
#58. I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people
Che Guevara
#59. Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.
Chris Hayes
#60. How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
#61. It is already clear that, because of advances in technology, drones are going to play an increased role in warfare in the years ahead. It is therefore vital that the legal frameworks governing their use are robust and internationally recognised.
Douglas Alexander
#62. No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.
Mitch Daniels
#63. I said after 2006 that Republicans didn't just lose our majority, we lost our way. I mean, our party walked away from the principles that men in our national governing majority first in 1980 and again in 1994, and the American people walked away from us.
Mike Pence
#64. The identity of Hinduism lies in its wide-open structure which allows and let develop diverse and distinct ideologies and practices. With no governing body and no binding scriptures studies in Hinduism are individual exposures and understanding of its spiritual thoughts.
Promod Puri
#65. No scheme of self-government, however benevolently or generously it may be bestowed upon us, will ever make us a self-governing nation, if we have no respect for the languages our mothers speak.
Mahatma Gandhi
#66. One can see [ ... ] that the so-called governing powers are cardboard characters that mask the true ruling factors of our culture. Of course, those who manipulate the nation are not stupid. Rulers throughout history are only as powerful as the people who support them allow them to be.
Peter Moon
#67. The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.
Beth Simone Noveck
#68. Political utopianism1 is tyranny disguised as a desirable, workable, and even paradisiacal governing ideology.
Mark R. Levin
#69. An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.
Andrew Taylor Still
#70. Although we did not find clear evidence that Hillary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.
James Comey
#71. He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.
Charles James Fox
#72. Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.
Enoch Powell
#73. The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing.
Laozi
#74. For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one's genital organs; or a set of injunctions against lying, stealing, or killing except when such acts are sanctioned by church or state.
Marilyn French
#75. My goal was to do the best job I could in governing the state of Wisconsin, in some cases making very tough decisions to have to bring our spending in line with the resources we had at the state level.
Scott McCallum
#76. The constitution has thus ended up not as Japan's ultimate governing legal document, but in the grand political Japanese tradition as a somewhat blurred and compromised token of legitimacy, hoisted about erratically like a portable shrine by competing contenders for power.
R. Taggart Murphy
#77. All who have meditated upon the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depend upon the education of youth.
Aristotle.
#78. Kafka's fiction examines a universe largely unexplored in the literature preceding him, one full of implications that venture into the remote regions of human psychology. It's a universe with different rules than those governing our reality. And there's no map.
Franz Kafka
#79. But there are realities governing what they can do. And Ukraine cannot live with the false image that somehow or another the West will come and rescue her. It's not going to happen.
Marvin Kalb
#80. For a free, self-governing people, something more than a vague familiarity with history is essential, if we are to hold on to and sustain our freedom.
David McCullough
#81. Adams understood that the secret to self-government is that the people must themselves be self-governing, which is to say they must be motivated by something beyond the law.
Eric Metaxas
#82. He'd concluded that not only should females have the right to vote, they should probably be governing the whole darn country.
Debra Holland
#83. In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general.
Albert Bushnell Hart
#84. There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.
Robert Ballard
#85. Each step in the development of the bourgeoisie was accompanied by a corresponding political advance in that class. An oppressed class under the sway of the feudal nobility, an armed and self-governing association of medieval commune: here independent urban republic (as
Karl Marx
#86. In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.
Walter Lippmann
#87. The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self- government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.
Albert J. Beveridge
#88. Africa is not fulfilling people's hopes and aspirations. African leaders have not had an agenda that included governing Africa so that people would find their careers, their life, dreams and visions fulfilled here.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#89. We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.
S.I. Hayakawa
#90. The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.
Jay Wright Forrester
#91. All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Aristotle.
#92. We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle.
Russell Banks
#93. We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#94. It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a wise Spirit sitting in all the wheels of motion, and governing the most eccentric creatures and their most pernicious designs to blessed and happy issues.
John Flavel
#95. But when nobody punishes you, you have to do it yourself, and there's no release date on that. We're always harder on ourselves than any governing body could ever get away with being.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#96. There is no governing structure for a pandemic, and little more than vague political pressure to ensure limited access to life-sparing tools and medicines for more than half the world population.
Laurie Garrett
#97. They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. This is too much, even for a joke. But it is not a subject for levity; it is an exceedingly serious matter.
Eugene V. Debs
#98. The art of governing, Dickon, is that of making use of talent wherever you do find it. Trust is too rare an attribute to make it your prime prerequisite for holding office. If I relied only upon those I truly do trust, we'd have a council of empty chairs!
Sharon Kay Penman
#99. [Hillary Clinton ] sometimes struggles with the big theme. She loves talking about her plans, and she often is very focused on sort of the smaller things that could be quite valuable in governing but aren't so good in big speechmaking.
Tamara Keith
#100. Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.
Juan Williams
