Governing Quotes - Page 11

• As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon the natural intelligence of life to sustain him. There are various Ways. There is the Way of salvation by the law of Buddha, the Way of Confucius governing the Way of learning, the Way of healing as a doctor, as a poet teaching the Way of Waka, tea, archery, and many arts and skills. Each man practices as he feels inclined.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Life, Mother, Art

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• Global climate change is real and we have a limited time to change our behavior or live with the consequences. We can all help by making small changes in our lives to letting our voice be heard by our governing bodies. As has always been the case in this country, if the people demand change, it will come.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Country, Time, Real

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• Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the means at the disposal of the governing class to exploit the public at large for the benefits of its various clienteles.

  Ralph Raico

  Philosophy, Military, Mean

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• 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

  Communication, Squares, Media

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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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• ...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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• Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative government at the time of the founding, and for a century thereafter—have been replaced with a professional ruling class led by governing masterminds. For the most part, they are isolated from the communities from which they hail and are consumed with the daily jockeying for position and power within their ranks. Moreover, they both pander to and lord over their constituents.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Class, Design

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• It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own judgments. Therefore remove those judgments and resolve to let go of your anger, and it will already be gone. How do you let go? By realizing that such actions are not shameful to you.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Letting Go, Gone, Action

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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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• 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 an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Religion, Orderliness

  Address at Kingsley Hall, delivered 17 October 1931, London

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• Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?

  Thomas Frank

  Government, Law, People

  "Lock ‘em Up — Jailing Kids is a Proud American Tradition" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2009.

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• Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.

  Thomas Frank

  Skills, Return, Blame

  "Richard Perle’s Apologia" by Richard Perle’s Apologia, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2009.

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• My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Reading, People

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.22, A&C Black

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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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• 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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• What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

  Hugo Chavez

  Country, Government, Oil

  "Hugo Chavez Speaks". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.alternet.org. September 21, 2005.

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• I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.

  Hugo Chavez

  Country, Focus, Wish

  "Hugo Chávez grants rare interview to western media" by Stephen Sackur, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2010.

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• There is no law governing all things.

  Giordano Bruno

  Law, All Things

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• The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Catholic, Action, Tradition

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address at The Meeting with The Representatives of British Society, Including The Diplomatic Corps, Politicians, Academics and Business Leaders, w2.vatican.va. September 17, 2010.

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• If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a very high level of consistency, and there is a sense that he is who he is. Obama's governing is completely consistent with the way he campaigned and the themes on which he campaigned, the issues he highlighted, the vision he shared.

  David Axelrod

  Running, Issues, Romance

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

  Stephen Ambrose

  Constitution, Documents, American Constitution

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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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• Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Baby, Government, Politics

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut”, p.268, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

  Leon Panetta

  Attitude, Thinking, Today

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