Governing Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Iraq, People, Support

  "Cheney: 'Direct Threats Require Decisive Action'". Dick Cheney's speech to the World Economic Forum in Cologny, Switzerland, www.foxnews.com. January 24, 2004.

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• No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

  Mitch Daniels

  Successful, Self, Enterprise

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.

  Barbara Jordan

  Views, People, Belief

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Parent, Littles, Kingdoms

  Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.265

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• There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Jobs, School, Kids

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• I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.

  Jesse Ventura

  Successful, Thinking, Government

  "Interview: Jesse Ventura biography". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• Satan has control now. No matter where you look, he is in control, even in our own land. He is guiding the governments as far as the Lord will permit him. That is why there is so much strife, turmoil, and confusion all over the earth. One master mind is governing the nations. It is not the president of the United States; it is not Hitler; it is not Mussolini; it is not the king or government of England or any other land; it is Satan himself.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Kings, Government, Land

  Joseph Fielding Smith (1973). “Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings”

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• Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Writing, Law, Easy

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.428, Vintage

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• You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Law, Firsts, Spirit

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• I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions are generated.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, World Government, Class

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• We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

  James Hilton

  Believe, Too Much

  James Hilton (1988). “Lost Horizon”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Government, Law, Madness

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• The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Drug, Morality, Behavior

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.22, VM eBooks

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• The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in our governing institutions. It is akin to the view that global warming is a hoax, or that the budget can be balanced through spending cuts alone, or that contraception causes abortion, or that evolution is just another theory, on a par with the theory that the earth is six thousand years old.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Taken, Party, Cutting

  "Trumpery" by Hendrik Hertzberg, prod02.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.

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• It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Government, Needs

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• We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily... But although the symmetries are hidden from us, we can sense that they are latent in nature, governing everything about us. That's the most exciting idea I know: that nature is much simpler than it looks. Nothing makes me more hopeful that our generation of human beings may actually hold the key to the universe in our hands - that perhaps in our lifetimes we may be able to tell why all of what we see in this immense universe of galaxies and particles is logically inevitable.

  Steven Weinberg

  Nature, Science, Keys

  "The Key to the Universe: A Report on the New Physics". Book by Nigel Calder, 1977.

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• Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Cooking, Too Much

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

  Laozi

  Country, Government, Political

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• The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for the mental life of animals shows itself to be throughout, in its elements and in the general laws governing the combination of the elements, the same as the mental life of man.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Science, Animal, Men

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1907). “Outlines of Psychology”

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• The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an investigation of the governing physics.

  Carl Sagan

  War, Winter, Science

  "A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 26, 1990.

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• One of the great underlying principles governing our life is service. Most of us have to work, but do we serve? Do we work in a spirit of service? Do we work for Life and our fellows? Or do we merely work for self, in order to make a living?

  Henry Thomas Hamblin

  Helping Others, Self, Order

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• The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while the moon borrows her light from the sun, and is less or weaker.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Moon, Light, Roots

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• They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. ... Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Freedom, War, Self

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• ...We then examine a particular coding system in DNA and discover that UI [universal information] is conveyed within the genes. Using this DNA evidence and scientific laws governing UI as premises, we are able to develop sound, logical deductions. This leads us to the following conclusion: the God of the Bible exists and He is responsible for originating and embedding Universal Information into biological life.

  Werner Gitt

  Dna, Law, Atheism

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• Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.

  Georges Bernanos

  Pain, Powerful, Men

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