Quotes About Governance

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

depended to make decisions concerning affairs of state.

Dr. Peter observed that one reason so many employees are incompetent is that the skills required to get a job often have nothing to do with what is required to do the job itself. The skills required to run a great political campaign have little to do with the skills required to govern.

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese?

How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

The same collection of cut-throats, crooks, and incompetents are still steering our planet's various ships of state.

The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed law of God… then what will it be? In some form or expression it will have to be the law of man (or men) - the standard of self-law or autonomy. And when autonomous laws come to govern a commonwealth, the sword is certainly wielded in vain, for it represents simply the brute force of some men's will against the will of other men.

You deserve whoever governs you ... Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.

Asegurabas que los dirigentes indígenas podían gobernar con más eficiencia el país. Habían heredado sabiduría milenaria y dominaban los secretos más recónditos de la tierra donde habían crecido.

Peoples are not governed in accordance with their caprices of the moment, but as their character determines that they shall be governed. Centuries are required to form a political system and centuries needed to change it. Institutions have no intrinsic virtue: in themselves they are neither good nor bad.

Medeniyetler ?imdiye kadar küçük bir fikir aristokrasisi taraf?ndan meydana getirilmi? ve idare olunmu?tur. Asla kitleler taraf?ndan de?il. Kalabal?klar yaln?z y?k?c? kuvvete sahiptirler.

It was interesting, I suppose it still is, how vicious men can take power and be accepted, supported by those they govern, if they bring with them a measure of peace. If granaries are full and citizens fed.

It was interesting, I suppose it still is, how vicious men can take power and be accepted, supported by those they govern, if they bring with them a measure of peace. If granaries are full and citizens fed. If war doesn't bring starvation

El proceso total puede describirse en un triste párrafo: con el dinero de la segunda fiesta petrolera los presidentes de la democracia aceitaron al Congreso federal, el cual aceitó a los gobernadores y a los municipios, los gobernadores aceitaron a sus congresos locales, que les aprobaron todos sus gastos. Hubo dinero de sobra para hacer política y para crear la red horizontal de corrupción cuya diaria evidencia soliviantó hasta el hartazgo a la República.

la historia nos enseña que una vez tomadas por alguien todas las instancias del poder, el poder se vuelve autónomo, se alimenta a sí mismo, separado de su sociedad por el mismo control que ejerce sobre ella, y puede arrastrar por años a sus gobernados por el lado equivocado de la historia.

Así llegó al mundo el sistema presidencial de partido hegemónico que gobernó México medio siglo, desde 1940, y resolvió sexenio a sexenio, en forma cupular pero efectiva, el problema crónico de la transmisión del poder.

Who's running things?

The Irish, being underdogs, necessarily knew more than their rulers. Theirs was the perennial problem of quickwitted subjects under the governance of dull-witted administrators