Quotes about Governing

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. Votes: 4

Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion. Votes: 4

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario. Votes: 4

Governing involves choosing and making choices between competing goods. Votes: 3

Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish. Votes: 3

Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility. Votes: 3

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it. Votes: 3

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Votes: 3

We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal. Votes: 3

Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union. Votes: 3

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin. Votes: 2

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. Votes: 2

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing. Votes: 2

I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do. Votes: 2

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country. Votes: 2

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil. Votes: 2

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well. Votes: 2

In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear. Votes: 2

I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing. Votes: 2

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society? Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course? Votes: 2

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole. Votes: 2

Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different. Votes: 2

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. Votes: 2

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing. Votes: 2

The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems. Votes: 2

Campaigning is different from governing. Votes: 0

There is no law governing all things. Votes: 0

The unknown is the governing principle of war. Votes: 0

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them. Votes: 0

I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy. Votes: 0

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult. Votes: 0

There's a very big difference between campaigning and governing. Votes: 0

I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.' Votes: 0

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing. Votes: 0

In tactics, action is the governing rule of war. Votes: 0

Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change. Votes: 0

Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change. Votes: 0

Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing. Votes: 0

The angels are ministering spirits; they are not governing spirits. Votes: 0

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self. Votes: 0

The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood. Votes: 0

I always say that campaigning and governing are two different things. Votes: 0

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster. Votes: 0

Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me. Votes: 0

History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability. Votes: 0

We can't have a Twitter president. This is serious stuff, this governing. Votes: 0

... governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting ... Votes: 0

Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs Votes: 0

You must begin to live in harmony with the laws governing the universe. Votes: 0

The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing. Votes: 0

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes. Votes: 0

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby. Votes: 0

Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else. Votes: 0

No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty. Votes: 0

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much. Votes: 0

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe. Votes: 0

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle. Votes: 0

The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience . Votes: 0

Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard. Votes: 0

The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. Votes: 0

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest. Votes: 0

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. Votes: 0

When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children. Votes: 0

I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing. Votes: 0

The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly. Votes: 0

Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy. Votes: 0

The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia. Votes: 0

I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions. Votes: 0

Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation Votes: 0

It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing. Votes: 0

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives. Votes: 0

Mexico established a unique three-part governing system shared by the government, the information commission and civil society organisations. Votes: 0

Ministers must not be able to set rules governing solicitors on a whim, to suit their own requirements. Votes: 0

If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered. Votes: 0

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy. Votes: 0

Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced. Votes: 0

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind. Votes: 0

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Votes: 0

An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease. Votes: 0

As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future. Votes: 0

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive. Votes: 0

If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else. Votes: 0

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life... Votes: 0

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves. Votes: 0

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation. Votes: 0

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just. Votes: 0

Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted. Votes: 0

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable. Votes: 0

The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self- government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race. Votes: 0

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed. Votes: 0

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own. Votes: 0

Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided. Votes: 0

Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything... so who knows what the future will hold? Votes: 0

Money is an inanimate object. It can do good works or bad works depending on the hands that wield it, and the hearts governing those hands. Votes: 0

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists' personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires? Votes: 0

[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. Votes: 0

This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: 'Liberty for each, for all, and forever!' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have to the people of a self-governing community. Votes: 0

Having had virtually no contact with the outside world for the last few weeks, Evan had temporarily forgotten the social norms governing shopping conduct or approaching celebrities in public. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations. Votes: 0

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Democracy means the power of the people and the possibility of influencing the governing parties. Russia had had enough experience with a one-party-system - we will not go back there. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away what you want the most. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people. Votes: 0

When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects. Votes: 0

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children. Votes: 0

If proper in their own conduct, what difficulty would they have in governing? But if not able to be proper in their own conduct, how can they demand such conduct from others? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which the new dogma... has swept through the left-of-centre governing classes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing." Votes: 0

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis or however many others they appoint, can govern the country. Votes: 0

The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while the moon borrows her light from the sun, and is less or weaker. Votes: 0

There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have for their mass and charge. For example, there is the unexplained 'fine structure constant' ... governing the strength of electromagnetic interactions, .... Votes: 0

Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When the governing representatives of the people legalize the shedding of innocent blood (as a for-profit business, nonetheless) then they have placed themselves, and those they represent, in the direct line of God's judgment. Votes: 0

All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To integrate our human activities within this context is our way into the future. Votes: 0

Compromise is what it's got to be all about when you're governing, because no one is ever going to have a big enough majority to just do what they want to do all the time. Votes: 0

George Washington might have become our king, but chose not to. His governing idea was that government is our servant because we are inherently free. It is an idea too many in government today forget. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Christians, above all people, should desire that their elected representatives submit to the Constitution, because it is constitutional government that has done more to protect Christian liberty than any governing document ever devised by man. Votes: 0