Governing Quote by Gertrude Stein

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

— Jonathan Shipley

A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.

— Barbara Tuchman

People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern.

— Laozi

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…

— Leon Panetta

As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.

— Paul Bremer

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

— Laozi

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered,…

— Lord Acton

Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger…

— Marcel Proust

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible…

— Woodrow Wilson

Governments are not representative.

— Noam Chomsky

Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it's in there.

— Wole Soyinka