Governing Quotes

Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.

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

The angels are ministering spirits; they are not governing spirits.

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.

There is no law governing all things.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

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

You must begin to live in harmony with the laws governing the universe.

Campaigning is different from governing.

I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.

There's a very big difference between campaigning and governing.

No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.

Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting.