Quotes About Governance

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.

The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively.

Let's think about how we can bring economic development, let's see if people could learn a little more of the rule of law, rather than the rule of man, which is kind of what you see in China.

They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty sceptre, O'er lesser powers that be.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

I think it would be a great improvement if there were no D&O insurance . The counter-argument is that no-one with any money would serve on a board. But I think net net you'd be better off.

If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.

The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.

Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way of tracking down the drug traffickers.

A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on.

The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.

If a person does not rule over money, then money will rule over him

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."

Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves

It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.

Culture means control over nature.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.

It is obvious that humanity faces existential threats of a global nature. They are global in the sense that is not possible to deal with them unless we resort to global governance.