Governing Quotes

228 quotes by 192 authors

Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Americans tote guns because they're assertive citizens, not docile subjects of a permanent governing class. They love their military because they think there's something contemptible… — Mark Steyn
The art of governing mankind by deceiving them. — Benjamin Disraeli
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… — John F. Kennedy
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… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into… — Thomas Carlyle
I donâ€™t think itâ€™s possible to skip with a frown on your face.... Iâ€™d like to see the worldâ€™s governing and terrorist leaders on a… — Bindi Irwin
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… — Hunter S. Thompson
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
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity… — Thomas Paine
Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy. — Joseph Campbell
A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That… — Lionel Trilling
With the frenzied pace in our own country, with the degenerating school system, with a crime rate that rises 30% a year, and with politicians… — Frederick Lenz
There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster. — Tony Snow
Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery. — Bob McDonnell
Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study… — Elihu Root
I don't have any problem with a reporter or a news person who says the President is uninformed on this issue or that issue. I… — David Gergen
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… — Breyten Breytenbach
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. — Charles Hodge
It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing. — Nat King Cole

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