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.
It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians.
The sovereigns of the Internet are acting like they have a divine right to govern.
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
The president has to govern.
Benghazi matters because Americans deserve to know the truth from those entrusted to lead and govern.
Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?
One cannot govern with 'buts'.
A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
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.
I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
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.
The dead govern the living.
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.
I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.
A minority government can't govern without support from other parties.
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.
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.
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?
What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.
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.
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
Maybe strong leaders are not quite as alluring as we think, and we should celebrate the fact that our leaders are just like us. Just because one candidate can't remember his whole speech and the other likes to put his feet up on the job doesn't mean they can't govern.
One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own government, their own elections, their own tax system. I don't want to govern the Palestinians; no one does. They already govern themselves.
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.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
