Quotes of Governing - somelinesforyou

“ I don't think that anybody has any patience left for the way the PLO has conducted itself,... We know now, because of the arms shipment, that there is a close association between all of that violence and what is happening within the ranks... and the leadership of the PLO. ”

- Tom Daschle

“ In some cases, it's managerial incompetence. ”

- Stephen Hess

“ Under socialism, all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing. ”

- Vladimir Lenin

“ We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed. ”

- Vicente Fox

“ Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe. ”

- Bill Frist

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

- Michel de Montaigne

“ As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy. ”

- Bill Richardson

“ We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society. ”

- John Naisbitt

“ If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading. ”

- Unknown

“ If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading. ”

- Unknown

“ Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will. ”

- Unknown

“ Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing. ”

- Lord Moulton

“ Some might still think that Fidel Castro is guiding this revolution. We like Fidel very much but the ideological leader is Simon Bolivar. ”

- Hugo Chavez

“ The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it. ”

- Dido Armstrong

“ The older you get the more capable you get at managing life. ”

- Rachel Weisz

“ More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right. ”

- Jack Schwartz

“ Managing bottom-up change is its own art. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ This is a Congress that is much more interested in investigating than legislating. ”

- Tom Daschle

“ Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people. ”

- Woodrow Wilson

“ A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well. ”

- Louisa May Alcott

“ All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. ”

- Aristotle

“ Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved — commitment to a scenario. ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ The art of governing mankind by deceiving them. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin. ”

- Gloria Steinem

“ One of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them: It is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… ”

- Douglas Adams

“ In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righteous means, but whether he was successful in gaining power, in keeping it, and in governing; whether, in short, he was skilful at his particular craft or a bungler. ”

- Frederick Scott Oliver

“ As we consider legislation, we must also be careful to ensure that any new regulatory regime reserves sufficient authority to ensure that competitive dynamics in communications markets are maintained. ”

- Mark Pryor

“ She'd be a reigning celebrity in that environment,... But she doesn't want that. She is still the humble, gracious lady she's always been. I'll tell you, knowing her has certainly turned me around in terms of my own aspirations about where I wanted to go and what I wanted to do… ”

- Eddie Robinson

“ All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonwealth, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered. ”

- Sir Walter Raleigh
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