Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
State-building can not be imposed. Its foundation must be a shared understanding between those who govern, and those who give their consent to be governed – the ‘deal’ between citizen and state.
Among the responsibilities of each citizen in a participatory democracy is keeping ourselves sufficiently informed so that we can participate effectively, argue our positions honorably, and hopefully, forge sufficient consensus to understand each other and then to govern.
It’s like the American democratic system. When you vote, even if your candidate doesn’t win, you accept that democracy was in action. When people participate in a Tezos network, they’re accepting that the democratic vote of the other coin holders will govern the way the protocol moves.
A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
Our national political campaigns never stop. We seem convinced that majorities exist to impose their will with few concessions and that minorities exist to prevent the party in power from doing anything important. That’s not how we were meant to govern.
We know this much about how Barack Obama plans to govern: He will deploy the fattest checkbook ever at the disposal of an incoming American president.
Mario Ruiz Massieu’s resignation places the ball very firmly in Zedillo’s court. A key decision he will have to make is whether he is going to govern with, without, or against his own party.
The 1857 uprising in India did not free the subcontinent, but it changed the way the British viewed and sought to govern it.
And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
I don’t want to govern the Palestinians. I don’t want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state.
I have not met, in Afghanistan, in even the most remote community, anybody who does not want a say in who governs them. Most remote community, I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised.
Solutions are complex, and I continue to worry that Trump didn’t fully appreciate the complexity of what’s going on. Consequently, I worry about whether he’s going to make the problems a whole lot better… But I am a Republican, and we really should give the guy a chance to govern and hope he’s successful.
Although England, and the rest of the United Kingdom, possesses momentous constitutional texts and significant statutes, since the 1600s there has been no systematic attempt to codify the powers and limits of the British executive and the rights of those it governs.
God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.
He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
It is clear that it is not man who has created the universe – whether you believe in God or in gods or deny any divine presence – man cannot alter the laws that govern the universe without damaging it.
The laws of the lowly gangster govern Qaddafi and his sons.
President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan’s capacity to secure and govern itself.
Attacking the ability of black people to govern through specious claims that we are a danger to white people is nothing short of disgraceful.
Molecular chemistry, the chemistry of the covalent bond, is concerned with uncovering and mastering the rules that govern the structures, properties and transformations of molecular species.
Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.
It is in Israel’s interest not to govern the Palestinians but for the Palestinians to govern themselves in their own state.
How a candidate runs shapes how a president governs.
It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West.
Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.
The problem is that the right doesn’t need any ideas to govern, but the left can’t govern without ideas.
Syllables govern the world.
That’s something I believe in as the Republican chair – that we have to continue outreach to every American because I firmly believe our policies and our principles and the way we govern is better for every American.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.
I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.
To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
If we weren’t born with anti-social passions – narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious – why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
If the president is allowed to govern by executive action, then the rule of law greatly suffers.
There’s a lot of things we can do to balance out what Obama’s done and going forward show the American people the Republican Party can govern. I want a coalition of tea party people, independents, moderate Democrats trying to find a way to move this country forward before we become Greece.
Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.
The only news most people ever hear about the inner city comes from grim headlines; the only residents they can name are characters on ‘The Wire.’ Of course, ignorance of a community doesn’t stop outsiders from having opinions about it or passing laws that govern it.
Although our body language governs the way other people perceive us, our body language also governs how we perceive ourselves and how those perceptions become reinforced through our own behavior, our interactions, and even our physiology.
It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that’s going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.
I’ve spent my life in the Republican party, it gives me no pleasure to say this. This party has demonstrated a complete incapacity to govern. Period.
Those who own the country ought to govern it.
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
There are two contrary impulses which govern this man’s brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That’s its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born.
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
I have a responsibility as an elected governor to govern and when I say govern, that means to make sure that our citizens are safe and we need the federal government to step up and do their job. They need to secure our borders.
