Quotes About Governance

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

I can tell you how bad our boards are... I don't have to watch Saturday Night Live anymore; I just go to the board meetings.

Governance is key to a robust Health IT system.

If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the authority of those who rule over us.

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.

Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.

There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers

Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

He who has the gold makes the rules.

We cannot change our rulers, but we can change the way they rule us.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.

Congressmen are like diapers - You need to change them often, and for the same reason

Some people talk of Africa being a continent cursed not blessed with minerals, but the real curse is the leaders and politicians of Africa

The government

They have become spoilers because in their view America's political elites, both Republican and Democrat, have grown together into an almost indiscernible "hybrid royalty" that offers them little to choose from in terms of how the nation is actually being governed.

The king reigns, but does not govern.

Control. Master.

controlled the lives of two hundred