Governing Quotes · Page 5

“Governing is the noble but hard job of trying to get anything done under a permanent condition of Murphy’s Law.”

— Anonymous

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

— Charles Schumer

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

— Anonymous

Governing involves choosing and making choices between competing goods.

— Jonah Goldberg

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.

— Noah Webster

The angels are ministering spirits; they are not governing spirits.

— John Brown

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

— Georges Bernanos

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a…

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr

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

— Mo Ibrahim

We need to secure our border and create an orderly process but should do so while governing with the values that have…

— Andy Kim

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

— Charles Dickens

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law.…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to…

— Walter Raleigh

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

— Thomas Frank

Conservative Party membership has almost halved since David Cameron become leader. The truth is the Tories are financially reliant on, and as…

— Len McCluskey

Our country will need real leadership to undo President Obama's failed policies, and replace them with the conservative principles Mitt Romney learned…

— Nikki Haley

With respect to some of the specific legislation or initiatives that I've made, it's true that Republicans often opposed these things. Sometimes…

— Barack Obama

The conversations have been cordial. [Donald Trump] has been open to suggestions, and the main thing that I've tried to transmit is…

— Barack Obama

There could be a 'community of communities' rather than a state. They would be united in some way but without any governing…

— Dorothy Day

What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

It is curious to observe the triumph of slight incidents over the mind; and what incredible weight they have in forming and…

— Laurence Sterne

However diligent she may be, however dedicated, no mother can escape the larger influences of culture, biology,fate . . . until we…

— Mary Blakely

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

— Vladimir Lenin

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

— Nat King Cole

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

— Tony Benn

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

— Barbara Tuchman

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

— Susan Rice

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

— Tom Coburn

“Equality was thus conceived in terms of the relative position of individuals, the rules governing their interactions,”

— Pierre Rosanvallon

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

— Genghis Khan

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

— Hugh Sidey

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

— Wallace D. Wattles

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

— Elliott Abrams

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

— Nicolas Gomez Davila

The true art of government consists in not governing too much.

— Jonathan Shipley

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

— Voltaire

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

— Bill Frist

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

— Thomas Jefferson