Quotes About Governance

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

Americans hold sacrosanct the ideals of freedom of speech, press, assembly, and religion and also believe that every human being is entitled to the same fundamental human rights. The Chinese believe that social needs and social harmony are more important than individual needs and rights and that the prevention of chaos and turbulence is the main goal of governance.

It is true that in the post-pandemic era, personal health and well-being will become a much greater priority for society, which is why the genie of tech surveillance will not be put back into the bottle. But it is for those who govern and each of us personally to control and harness the benefits of technology without sacrificing our individual and collective values and freedoms.

To paraphrase Madeleine Albright, we face the task of understanding and governing 21st-century technologies with a 20th-century mindset and 19th-century institutions.

el régimen de López Obrador se mueve en una lógica similar: incorpora a las clases populares, desatendidas por el neoliberalismo, pero sin ofrecerles la emancipación y la oportunidad de autogobernarse.

O homem só dá valor ao homem depois que morre. Se os homens governam o mundo, ele nunca está bom para o povo viver, por que não deixar as mulheres governarem? As mulheres não fariam guerras, porque elas são as mães dos homens. Mas os homens são os pais dos homens, fazem guerras, e matam-se.

These colonial governors, who were not always very educated or even very educable, could convince themselves that what was merely a temporary privilege should become a permanent right. (p.97)

He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.

Only now and then had the scholar also become the ruler—Marcus Aurelius, Thomas More, Woodrow Wilson.

It was hard work to rule a kingdom, much less seven of them.

Or do you mean to rule over a realm of seals and otters?" She gave a rueful laugh. "Otters might be easier to rule than men, I grant you. And seals are smarter.

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

Because of demagogues, rhetoric has a tainted reputation in our time. However, rhetoric is central to democratic governance. It can fuse passion and persuasion, moving free people to freely choose what is noble.

Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Let them obey that know not how to rule.

Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

He that would govern others should first be the master of himself.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

TODOS LOS REYES SON CIEGOS. LOS BUENOS LO SABEN Y USAN MÁS QUE SUS OJOS PARA GOBERNAR.

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.