Quotes About Governance

There are good and bad things in all political systems.

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

Money (before he became a Supreme Court justice), wrote: "They control the people through the people's own money.

In Maryland, for instance, by the new constitution of 1776, to run for governor one had to own 5,000 pounds of property; to run for state senator, 1,000 pounds. Thus, 90 percent of the population were excluded from holding office.

Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment.

The United States-It's nervous poplulation obese, fearful, tormented by inarticulate anger, contemptuous of governance, murdering sleep with every new handgun.

Not men who ran the world, but who made it run.

And foe-of-convenience, the United States, barely the hope of the world, guilty of torture, helpless before its sacred text conceived in an age of powdered wigs, a constitution as unchallengeable as the Koran. Its nervous population obese, fearful, tormented by inarticulate anger, contemptuous of governance, murdering sleep with every new handgun. Africa

And foe-of-convenience, the United States, barely the hope of the world, guilty of torture, helpless before its sacred text conceived in an age of powdered wigs, a constitution as unchallengeable as the Koran. Its nervous population obese, fearful, tormented by inarticulate anger, contemptuous of governance, murdering sleep with every new handgun.

Nothing is so dishonourable in a civilised nation as to permit itself to be 'governed' without resistance by a reckless clique that has surrendered to depraved instinct.

I don't know if you heard, but I kind of run this place.

MGR's rule took care of the poor, the downtrodden, and the middle class. I have faith that I, too, can provide that rule. With the help of technology and the support of youngsters, resourceful people, and intellectuals, I, too, can provide that kind of a rule.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.

The role of Premier is not one that should be taken lightly, nor is it a personal trophy.

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.

We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.

The world is an increasingly dangerous, troubled place. There are nations that seem to be ungovernable. Nations where violence and religious combat are as common as the sunrise.

We're gonna run this state like Donald J. Trump is running America.

All great leaders choose great advisors, people they really trust for their governance.

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.

Trust me, I've been to countries where there's no government. And our government's pretty damned good.

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.