Top 111 Governing Quotes

We can prove that we are in the business of governing responsibly, upholding our rule of law, and giving priority to those immigrants willing to apply legally versus those who leverage our system’s loopholes.
Dan Crenshaw
Because of my success in the private sector, I had the chance to run America’s largest city for 12 years, governing in the wake of its greatest tragedy.
Michael Bloomberg
In all of our efforts, we continue to emphasize the importance of inclusivity and transparency on the part of the Afghan government and leadership, especially in linking nascent local governing institutions to the decision-making and financial resources in Kabul.
David Petraeus
Under Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in the U.K., there was a rewriting of the basic rules of capitalism. These two governments changed the rules governing labour bargaining, weakening trade unions, and they weakened anti-trust enforcement, allowing more monopolies to be created.
Joseph Stiglitz
Nationalism is not that hard. It’s not that hard to incite people against another, and it’s also – and this is the harder thing: Democrats have, and the challenge we have all the time, is we believe in governing and governance and trying to find middle ground.
Jon Lovett
Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.
Bill Frist
Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it’s much more partisan and much more divided.
Leon Panetta
There are conferences every year where all the major coaches get together, and they talk about the issues in wrestling, what’s going to happen. There’s a major governing body, U.S.A. Wrestling, which oversees a lot of the issues. The organization is there in wrestling to make a very well-balanced, organized system.
Ben Askren
A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
Wendell Willkie
Police forces across America need root-to-stem changes – to their internal cultures, training and hiring practices, insurance, and governing regulations.
Annie Lowrey
The multi-party agreement, known as the Global Political Agreement (GPA), created the Government of National Unity (GNU) that has acted as Zimbabwe’s governing institution since 2009.
Roy Bennett
Campaigning and governing are two very different activities, and there is no reason to assume that how Trump conducted the former will dictate how he approaches the latter.
Richard N. Haass
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Because of tax laws governing charities, including almost every single civil rights organization you’ve ever heard of, including the NAACP, the Urban League, the ACLU, and others, those organizations are not allowed to endorse political candidates or use their resources in political campaigns of any kind.
Shaun King
I believe accurately remembering – and honoring – our whole past is the first step in governing in a way that effectively represents the whole America.
Tammy Duckworth
I’m thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that’s what I’m going to do.
George Pataki
In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.
Nikola Tesla
In track and field, Nike is all-powerful. They control the top coaches, athletes, races, even the governing body.
Mary Cain
We will never be a part of any plot against those who are governing our country.
Fethullah Gulen
We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council’s call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy.
Dick Cheney
The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.
Frank Carlucci
In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
The campaign is over. It’s time for the work of governing to begin.
Tom Daschle
I feel it’s a person’s duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.
David McCallum
‘The Talk-Funny Girl’ opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.
Carolyn See
As I prepare to take over the reins of your government, I ask each of you to join me in the process of governing.
David Ige
Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.
Juan Williams
Civilian law around aviation is much looser than those governing military. Civilian planes can basically fly wherever they want in the world.
Trevor Paglen
I think that liberalism and the centrist governing elite of this country need to learn lessons from the Trump phenomenon. It is part of the way that the country is governed and the country is shaped that induces spasms of populism, including spasms of bigoted populism.
Ross Douthat
Politics is a messy business, but campaigning prepares you for governing. It prepares you to get hit, stand strong, and, if necessary, hit back.
James Carville
From the day I was elected, I began focusing on governing the best way I know how – transparently, openly, and in a way that encourages debate, dialogue and discussion on all sides of an issue.
Ned Lamont
What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They’re looking for oil.
Hugo Chavez
Where protection of certain sensitive information is well-founded, I remain committed to upholding the laws and longstanding policies governing classification and public release.
Christopher A. Wray
The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a vote, but also that the minority needs to yield to the wishes of the majority.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it’d be black, white, women, straight, gay, Republican.
Don Lemon
Romney was an excellent businessman with a strong record as a public servant – whereas Trump inherited wealth, went bankrupt more than once, created nothing of value, and had no governing record at all.
Anne Applebaum
I don’t think it is ever enough for a governing majority to simply be opposed to things. We have to be for things.
Cory Gardner
Democracy, as a governing system, is built on the foundational concept that when you cast your ballot, that ballot ensures your voice, will, and perspective will be accounted for in the direction of your city, state, or country.
Jamaal Bowman
There’s so much hard work, dedication, and focus goes in from not just the athletes but from the coaches, officials, governing bodies, and Sport Wales. It’s a real team effort, and it’s rightly called Team Wales.
Lynn Davies
The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis or however many others they appoint, can govern the country.
Richard Lugar
My pledge is to be part of the solution to focus on governing, to put my experience to work to help solve the very serious issues we’re facing in this country.
Karen Handel
A governing ethos of the Internet has been that whatever flows through it – information, ideas – is up for grabs.
Jenna Wortham
Every now and then, President Obama sorta drops his veil. He’s less coy about his philosophy, he sort of reveals his true governing philosophy, what he really believes.
Paul Ryan
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exis

Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society?
Rose George
Governing through federal ultimatum grates against our history, traditions, and, most importantly, our Constitution.
Luther Strange
I was not involved and am not involved in the questions about the rules governing detention of combatants.
Brett Kavanaugh
In Mumbai, Marathi schools are shutting down and Urdu schools are increasing. The parties governing the BMC are giving permission to these schools. If Urdu schools are rising, you know whose numbers are increasing and who is coming to the city.
Raj Thackeray
Well, it is true that they did – the Pentagon did impose rules for governing the handling of the Koran in January of 2003, after there had been complaints about the handling of the Koran from detainees, from the International Red Cross.
Michael Isikoff
The Palestinian people were governing themselves before the creation of the State of Israel.
Linda Sarsour
I’m a dilettante. My governing word is ‘curiosity.’
Ian Hacking
It is already clear that, because of advances in technology, drones are going to play an increased role in warfare in the years ahead. It is therefore vital that the legal frameworks governing their use are robust and internationally recognised.
Douglas Alexander
You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.
Gloria Steinem
All Labour supporters and politicians know that winning elections is extremely difficult, but my first year as mayor of London has taught me that governing – driving change and delivering results – is even harder.
Sadiq Khan
My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.
Bela Kun