Quotes About Governance

Woe to that land that's governed by a child.

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss.

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 more divided.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

Politics is too important to be left to politicians.

It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.

The fundamental question of politics has always been whether there should be politics.

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.

Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.

In every area of politics, the goal is control.

If a politician wins in a dirty way at election, he will sat in position and works with corruption.

As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?

System fails when people with ability don't have authority and people with authority don't have ability.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.