Quotes About Governance

The high seas - in other words, the oceans beyond the 200-mile national limits - are a lawless realm.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

Everyone with all those good intentions came to help Indonesia rebuild from the tsunami; but the co-ordination problem was very big, because they came with their own way of doing business; they came with the inflexibility of their own governance.

We shouldn't limit the idea of 'policy recommendations' to regulators. On the Internet, all of us are, in a sense, policymakers.

No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.

Our inability to govern ourselves at home, to deal with everything from infrastructure to our debt to tax policy, is reducing the appeal of the American model.

I actually don't believe in governance by referendum. I believe that we have a democracy, that we elect people to make decisions.

When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.

Governor Kasich and I won't agree on everything, but agree we've got to control the rise in health care costs on all levels.

The job of every president is to ride herd over Congress.

We mustn't hesitate to cut corruption at its roots.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

Power is not a means; it is an end.

Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.

Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.

For long periods the High seem to be securely in power, but sooner or later there always comes a moment when they lose either their belief in themselves or their capacity to govern efficiently, or both. They are then overthrown by the Middle, who enlist the Low on their side by pretending to them that they are fighting for liberty and justice. As soon as they have reached their objective, the Middle thrust the Low back into their old position of servitude, and themselves become the High.

He who controls the past, controls the future; and he who controls the present, controls the past.

Quite apart from anything else, the rule of money sees to it that we shall be governed largely by the old—that is, by people utterly unable to grasp what age they are living in or what enemy they are fighting.

There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern. These causes do not operate singly, and as a rule all four of them are present in some degree.

La guerra la lleva a cabo cada grupo gobernante contra sus propios gobernados, y el objetivo de la guerra no es hacer o impedir conquistas territoriales, sino conservar intacta la estructura de la sociedad.