Governing Quotes

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it.

We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.

[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.

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.

Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an investigation of the governing physics.

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.

Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.

We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy.

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.

Though, when a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes.

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice?

We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.

I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.

If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered.

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.

Ministers must not be able to set rules governing solicitors on a whim, to suit their own requirements.

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.

As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.

REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.

People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.

There is no law governing all things.

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.

The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.

I always say that campaigning and governing are two different things.

Campaigning is different from governing.

The reason we're governing right now is because we defeated moderate Republicans with moderate Democrats. And people need to be patient about that and realize that compromise is not evil.

Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.

We can't have a Twitter president. This is serious stuff, this governing.

No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.