Governing Quotes
228 quotes by 197 authors
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If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a very high level…
— David Axelrod
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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There is no law governing all things.
— Giordano Bruno
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A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
— Louisa May Alcott
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I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.
— Hugo Chavez
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What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.
— Hugo Chavez
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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…
— Dick Cheney
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The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
— Stephen Ambrose
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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
— Thomas Paine
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Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however, in…
— Abraham Lincoln
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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…
— John Flavel
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Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will…
— Bertrand Russell
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Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular…
— Bertrand Russell
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We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily ... But although the symmetries are hidden…
— Steven Weinberg
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Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it.
— Laozi
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Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
— Laozi
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The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for the mental life…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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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…
— Carl Sagan
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