Quotes About Governance

The demands of exercising it once it is won, however, are so complex and fluid that ideological certitude is often among the first casualties of actual governing.

Well," Bush answered, "I'm worried that sometimes your idealism will get in the way of what I think is sound governance.

Like the old politburos, the new politburo styled itself as the enemy of the elite and the friend of the masses, dedicated to giving consumers what they wanted, but to Andreas (who, admittedly, had never learned how to want stuff) it seemed as if the Internet was governed more by fear: the fear of unpopularity and uncoolness, the fear

asked me, "what were the usual causes or motives that made one country go to war with another?"  I answered "they were innumerable; but I should only mention a few of the chief.  Sometimes the ambition of princes, who never think they have land or people enough to govern; sometimes the corruption of ministers, who engage their master in a war, in order to stifle or divert the clamour of the subjects against their evil administration. 

Thomas Brooks defines providence this way: "It is the unceasing activity of the sovereign Creator whereby, he upholds His creatures in orderly existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances and free acts of men and angels, no matter how great or trivial. All of this is done to accomplish one great design: to give glory to Himself.

I stand corrected. Yours is a far superior arbitrary system of governance.

Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.

Voir un nombre infini de personnes non pas obéir, mais servir ; non pas être gouvernés, mais tyrannisés ; n'ayant ni biens ni parents, femmes ni enfants, ni leur vie même qui soit à eux !

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing business at FIFA.

Catalan citizens are peaceful, European, and open-minded. We want to contribute to better international and European governance.

We don't need to completely dumb things down. We need to speak about things in an accessible way. But we have a responsibility to peel the curtains back in governing and government and how things work.

As bad as the Obama administration is at trying to legislate without legislators, all too often, Congress is responsible for handing them the 'pen and phone.'

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

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, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.

Ninguna revolución ha logrado traer prosperidad a América Latina. Sólo ha traído corrupción (la revolución ha derivado en robolución), dictadura y privilegios para la casta gobernante a expensas del grueso de la población sumergida en la pobreza. Nuestras revoluciones no han producido otra cosa que miseria moral, política, económica y cultural.

Leaders who allow themselves to be governed by reason will allow themselves to in turn govern their cities benevolently. The uneducated leader, on the other hand, is plagued by greed, paranoia, and a false sense of grandeur.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.