Quotes About Governance

I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.

The low esteem in which science and scientists are held is having serious consequences. We live in a society that is increasingly governed by science and technology, yet fewer and fewer young people want to go into science.

No community is easier to govern than one that rejects the very concept of community.

I love the place that I live, but I hate the people in charge.

Whoever has the gold makes the rules.

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I believe it is dangerous for the ethic of divinity to supersede the ethic of autonomy in the governance of a diverse modern democracy. However, I also believe that life in a society that entirely ignored the ethic of divinity would be ugly and unsatisfying.

In the midst of the declining governing capacity of the American democratic order, we ought to focus less on 'participation' as the magical solution and more on the real dynamics of how to facilitate the organization of effective political power.

On the whole, however, it was accepted that money not only talked, but governed. All the industrialist had to get to be accepted among the governors of society was enough money.

Rather than saying our leaders aren't leading, we can, using this distinction, say instead that the people with authority aren't exercising any leadership.

Who rules here?' I asked. They said: 'The People naturally.' I said: 'Naturally the people but who really rules?

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them.

Nevertheless, despite his presence, here too regulation and supervision fell short.

rules aren't useful unless they are enforced.

Because the polis is the context in which virtue is cultivated—and because cultivating virtue is the ultimate goal of man—the polis must be governed rigorously so that human beings are inculcated with virtue, according to Plato.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

Be just, I would always recommend to the men in power. Be just whatever happens, because, if you cannot govern with justice, even with injustice you would not govern for long.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forc'd by the occasion.

I hope you'll find that my campaign was a reflection of how I plan to govern - bringing people together, building coalitions, and finding common ground.

I tend to be one of those who does not equate democratization with the holding of elections. The emphasis ought to be on such things as rule of law, economic reform, and promotion of a free media - in short, essentially independent, free institutions.