Words matter. These are the best Govern Quotes from famous people such as Charles de Gaulle, Ann Widdecombe, Moshe Sharett, Baruch Spinoza, Tom Tancredo, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
Britain must govern Britain and nothing less will do.
We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Trump is not a conservative and has no conservative agenda. If elected president, he would not govern as the second coming of Ronald Reagan.
Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.
There is a paradox in politics that what it takes to get elected is not necessarily what it takes to govern, and my feeling is that trying to control things too much feels icky to me.
If Rob Ford decided he wanted to run for the Liberal Party in 2015, we’d say, ‘No, sorry, the way you approach things, the way you govern, the way you behave is not suitable to the kind of Liberal team we want to build.’
If you want to replace an existing governor, you’d better tell people what you’re going to do and how you’re going to govern.
When the people gave them the mandate to govern in 2008, these UDP leaders had one thing in mind: They run things. They forgot all their lofty promises to the people. They set out to crush the PUP and to erase all the accomplishments of the PUP years in government.
We need someone who’s going to govern on behalf of everyone in this country, including immigrants.
If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. It’s not clear how they will do it, but it never is.
When I dig around in the roots of how we imagine ourselves, how we govern, how we live together in communities – how we treat one another when we are not being stupid – what I find is deeply Aboriginal.
The thing that Tea Parties have to understand, you can’t govern if you don’t get elected.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.
To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.
I consider myself an activist who governs.
Our founders insisted that protecting the states’ power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom.
Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.
Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression – a myth – and more in common with the disease known as cancer – a harsh reality.
To a certain extent, platforms are platitudes that you test when you get to govern. You have to run those priorities up against the opposition and decide what’s most important.
The fundamentals of the token model are valuable and powerful. They allow communities to govern themselves, their economics, and rally a community in powerful ways that will allow open systems to flourish in a way that was previously impossible.
The simple truth is that unless you can control immigration you cannot govern because you cannot set a budget or plan public services.
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.
While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions.
I think that I’m the same Jan Brewer I was when I first ran for office way back in 1982, which is a few years ago. I always tried to do what I believed is right and I’ve always voted the way that I believe was the right way for my constituency, and that’s what I’m doing when I govern. So, I’m the same Jan Brewer.
The most difficult part of Brexit will be to figure out the trade regime between the U.K. and the rest of the E.U. because the level of trade integration between the members of the E.U. is the deepest in the world and integrates regulations that govern how products and services are produced and sold within the E.U.
It’s the government’s obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.
You have to govern like you’ve got a majority. It doesn’t matter whether it’s one seat, five or 10 seats.
Judgments that give an impression that we can disregard the Constitution for political expediency, or to solve what we regard as current problems, set a dangerous precedence which will make it difficult to govern in future or to make ordinary citizens to abide by the Constitution.
Gadhafi opponents included many ‘good guys,’ but they never received the support necessary to govern a new Libya after he was gone.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
The Internet was invented in an age when our entire approach to regulation has been extremely lax, and so you’d think, ‘OK, there might be a law on the books that governs how these corporations can handle our data.’
I would like to think that enough examples of non-compromise are going to start people thinking that there must be a better way to try to govern the country.
Bhojpuri film industry is very small – precisely eight people govern the whole industry and I am one of them.
They that govern the most make the least noise.
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point – the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
‘Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
That government is best which governs least.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can’t play cricket without any rules.
I took over a Brazil in the midst of a profound ethical, moral, and economic crisis. We are committed to changing our history… We want to govern by example.
I’ve heard, ‘Temer is very fragile, poor little thing; he doesn’t know how to govern.’ Gibberish!
I believe that in order to sustain a governing majority, the Democratic Party has got to learn that it can govern without raising taxes.
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
If you want to come fight the good fight to make a difference for people and to try to get the government back on track, where we govern from the middle and not from the extremes, then understand that it’s a lonely road, and you’re going to have a hard time.
Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.
Mr. Trump would need someone to help govern in Washington, D.C. When a complete outsider is picked to lead the ticket, it makes sense to have someone with government experience on it.
My plan is to govern as long as I can.
Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you’re going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.
The Tory party is at is strongest when it is in tune with the hopes and aspirations of Britain’s hard-working, law-abiding majority, and when it governs through clear Conservative principles.
When Hong Kong was under British administration, governors were dispatched from London to govern this city. We had no say in the matter.
I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.
The thought about Republicans is, we’re supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
To manipulate the immune system, you need to find the key bottlenecks that govern the system. The T-cell is an absolute bottleneck.
It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
