Quotes About Governance

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society.

In my opinion, the most important thing in governance is management control.

The problem with Mexico isn't so much the men who govern but the lack of rules to govern by and the absence of institutions to rule with.

A man must first govern himself ere he be fit to govern a family. —SIR WALTER RALEIGH

La democracia solo puede triunfar si prosperan instituciones intermedias, como las Iglesias.

res publica, literally 'the thing belonging to the people', and the origin of the modern term republic.

rule by one man, rule by the many, or rule by the few.

respectively, tyrannis, demokratia, and oligarchia.

And all officeholders, whether chosen by lot or elected, were held closely to account.

gobierna poco y mal, pero en cambio está empeñado en una permanente campaña electoral.

It is far better for a country to remain under the rule of Islam than be governed by Christians who refuse to acknowledge the rights of the Catholic Church. Pope Gregory VII, 1073

At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

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Why wait passively for the next terrorist attack--or a nuclear missile launched by a rogue state, or a cyberattack emanating from China or from a group of disaffected Estonian teens-- when we could be eliminating the root causes of conflict by fostering economic development and good governance, building relationships, creating networks of agents and allies, collecting data, promoting "new narratives," or striking potential future enemies before they can develop the ability to harm us?

I shall govern by affection.

Quod Principi plaevit habet legis vigorem

It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to govern by the arts of peace.

The trouble with this country is that it's a mass of anarchists and improvisors governed by bandits. pg. 164

State problems should involve state solutions.

This is how power is eclipsed: in a moment of vivid realism, between the waning of one fantasy of governance and its replacement by the next; in an instant when the world springs free of its mooring of dreams and reveals itself to be girdled in the pathways of survival and self-preservation. The

Power is the ability to influence and control.

The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.

Some speak of the nobility of the law. Stern has not always found that to be true. Too much of the grubby bone shop, the odor of the abattoir, emanates from every criminal courtroom. It is at heart a very nasty business to accuse, to judge, to punish. But the law, at least, seeks to govern misfortune, to ensure that a society's wrath is not visited at random. In human affairs, reason will never fully triumph; but there is no better cause to champion. At