Governing Quotes

The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis or however many others they appoint, can govern the country.

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.

It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.

Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined.

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

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.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

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.

In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general.

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

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.

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.

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

The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do.

The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.

This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.

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