Governing Quotes - Page 7

• When a man touches a woman's body, he is not just touching her body. It goes MUCH DEEPER than that for a woman. He is touching parts of her soul-parts as diverse as how she feels about being a grandmother some day, to what is her favorite ice cream, to how much she loves her pet, and to her opinion of how the current President is governing. The man wants a sexual encounter and love is far from his mind; she desires permanence, commitment, safety, and security.

  Jim Anderson

  Commitment, Grandmother, Love Is

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• Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.

  James Comey

  Law, Information, Sensitive

  James Comey's Statement on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System, www.fbi.gov. July 5, 2016.

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• I think it's just natural when you're governing, that it's not always easy to remain as pure in principle as you'd like to be.

  Rona Ambrose

  Thinking, Principles, Easy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being devalued as public intellectuals, students are viewed as clients, academic fields are treated as economic domains for providing credentials, and work place skills, and academic freedom is under assault.

  Henry Giroux

  Academic Freedom, Skills, Fields

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• Democracy means the power of the people and the possibility of influencing the governing parties. Russia had had enough experience with a one-party-system - we will not go back there.

  Vladimir Putin

  Party, Mean, Russia

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything... so who knows what the future will hold?

  Rostam Batmanglij

  Band, Said, Knows

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• There is a political process which we are trying to achieve through what is called the Vienna Group. That involves the establishment of a governing council, which is to take power away from Bashar Assad, to write a constitution and to open the way for elections. It is important that Bashar leaves in the beginning, not at the end of the process. This will make the transition happen with less death and destruction.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Writing, Political, Important

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Well, Lula has an incredible amount of sway still. He's someone who came up from very humble origins, so his life trajectory is something that many people in Brazil still identify with. So within the governing Workers' Party, he has a lot of power. He has power to name ministers, some people say. And he's very close with the current president as well. She's his handpicked successor.

  Simon Romero

  Party, Humble, Names

  "Brazil's Former President Questioned In Corruption Investigation". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• You know, there's a growing level of disenchantment with governing institutions in Brazil. And in a sense, it's a healthy development because you have investigators and prosecutors going to work and finding out these things and revealing them to the public. But as a result, you have a lot of growing distrust in the way that government functions in Brazil.

  Simon Romero

  Government, Healthy, Growing

  "Brazil's Former President Questioned In Corruption Investigation". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• [Hillary Clinton ] sometimes struggles with the big theme. She loves talking about her plans, and she often is very focused on sort of the smaller things that could be quite valuable in governing but aren't so good in big speechmaking.

  Tamara Keith

  Struggle, Often Is, Talking

  Source: www.npr.org

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• With respect to some of the specific legislation or initiatives that I've made, it's true that Republicans often opposed these things. Sometimes they opposed them because I proposed them. Now that they are responsible for governing, I think they'll find that reversing them would be counterproductive.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Would Be, Sometimes

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I always say that campaigning and governing are two different things.

  Barack Obama

  Two, Different, Campaigning

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you have some legally sanctioned relationship with the bundle of legal rights traditionally belonging to marriage and governing authority has slapped a label on it, whether it is civil union or domestic partnership or whatever label it's given, it is nonetheless tantamount to marriage.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Rights, Unions, Labels

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• The leftists are constantly whining and moaning about all the money in politics. They want campaign finance reform, right? They want to get all the money out of politics. They want government money governing campaigns. They want all the money out, they say. But then you look at their coffers, and it's overflowing with hundreds of millions of dollars.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Reform, Dollars

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I can only hope that Trump comes to realize the grave dangers of adopting a policy of confrontation toward Iran. Among these dangers is the likelihood that hardliners would again gain the upper hand in the governing process in Tehran, and the moderates who have sought to end national and regional tensions would be marginalized, or worse.

  Richard A. Falk

  Hands, Iran, Would Be

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Republicans - Reagan but also George W. Bush - believed in freedom, and they believed in America's role. To have the governing party speak in terms of a zero-sum world, or speak in terms of America's purpose as no more than grabbing the largest share possible in the short run, goes against our foreign policy tradition that goes back to 1900, really.

  Daniel Fried

  Running, Zero, Party

  Source: www.politico.com

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• A lot of the people in history who I really admire lived before the hyperinformation age we're living in. Even if they were governing or solving problems in consequential periods, like the Civil War or the world wars or the Great Depression or the Cold War, they had a period of time and space to actually think, to be private and you read their biographies, and they had time to think about what was happening and how to respond. I don't think human nature has changed in the last 50-150 years, but the stresses, the demands on those of us in public life have just exploded.

  Hillary Clinton

  Stress, War, Thinking

  Interview With Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. April 6, 2016.

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• Donald Trump entered show business in his early 50s and becomes a celebrity for 15 years. He decides he wants to officially run for president and doesn't really know the inside politics business, and masters it, beats 15 opponents. Then he wins and defeats the Clinton machine... He's a very fast learner. He will figure out the presidency and governing very quickly.

  Christopher Ruddy

  Running, Winning, Years

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The conversations have been cordial. [Donald Trump] has been open to suggestions, and the main thing that I've tried to transmit is that there's a different between governing and campaigning, so that what he has to appreciate is as soon as you walk into this office after you've been sworn in, you're now in charge of the largest organization on Earth.

  Barack Obama

  Organization, Appreciate, Office

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Moving from an opposition party to a governing party comes with growing pains. And, well, we're feeling those growing pains today. Doing big things is hard. All of us. All of us, myself included, we will need time to reflect on how we got to this moment, what we could have done to do it better.

  Paul Ryan

  Pain, Party, Moving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Campaigns are fun. Campaigns are police escorts, they're airplanes, they're crowds, they're balloons, they're bands, a lot of fun. You speak in vague generalities. You get applause for slogans. And then governing comes. And governing is tedious and it's difficult an it's time-consuming and it demands your attention. And policy isn't vague generalities. It's specifics and it's based on knowledge.

  Mark Shields

  Fun, Airplane, Police

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To sustain a governing majority, that requires an ability for Republicans and Democrats to find some common ground. And right now, the structure of the system is such where it makes it really hard for people to work together.

  Barack Obama

  People, Working Together, Majority

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• We were very effective, and I was very effective, in shaping public opinion around my campaigns. But there were big stretches, while governing, where even though we were doing the right thing, we weren't able to mobilize public opinion firmly enough behind us to weaken the resolve of the Republicans to stop opposing us or to cooperate with us. And there were times during my presidency where I lost the PR battle.

  Barack Obama

  Battle, Public Opinion, Campaigns

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.

  Susan Rice

  Responsibility, Different, Levels

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Following World War II, the U.S. was the architect of the UN system, and the world financial system, and the Human Rights Declaration, and of course the United Nations is based here in New York City. But, unfortunately, especially in the last decade, the U.S. really has been turning its back on international agreements and the set of agencies and procedures that they create as a means for governing the world.

  John Burroughs

  New York, War, Mean

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