Governing Quotes
228 Governing quotes by 192 unique authors
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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…
— Vicente Fox
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Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be…
— John Dean
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Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the means at the…
— Ralph Raico
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Global climate change is real and we have a limited time to change our behavior or live with the consequences. We can all help by…
— Kyra Sedgwick
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Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.
— Chris Hayes
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As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon the natural intelligence…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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If democracy is justified in governing the state,then it must also be justified in governing economic enterprises, and to say that it is not justified…
— Robert A. Dahl
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Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me.
— Unknown Author
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We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich…
— Paul Brooks
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If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.
— Ronald Reagan
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The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican…
— Alexander Hamilton
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In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have…
— Walter Lippmann
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Conservative Party membership has almost halved since David Cameron become leader. The truth is the Tories are financially reliant on, and as a result are…
— Len McCluskey
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No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs
— Alexander Hamilton
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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…
— John Stuart Mill
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The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that…
— Charles Hodge
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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,…
— Charles Hodge
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Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the Tao and evil…
— Laozi
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Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.
— Laozi
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The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments. No…
— Unknown Author
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In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righteous means, but whether he was…
— Frederick Scott Oliver
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Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical glance, the nature…
— Franz Joseph Gall
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I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not…
— Charles Darwin
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The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.
— Frank Carlucci
Who Wrote These Governing Quotes
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