Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Govern Quotes from famous persons: Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Rush Limbaugh, Mario Cuomo, Hisham Matar, Denise Dresser. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Govern Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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Solutions are complex, and I continue to worry that Trump didn’t fully appreciate the complexity of what’s going on. Consequently, I worry about whether he’s going to make the problems a whole lot better… But I am a Republican, and we really should give the guy a chance to govern and hope he’s successful.
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The concept of war is not the construct that will govern – psychologically, politically, and legally – our continuing response to Al Qaeda.
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The thought about Republicans is, we’re supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
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Independence means we enjoy freedom. We are not colonised by people. And we can govern our own country and develop it independently so that our people can live a better life.
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Buy your fair-trade coffee beans by all means, but don’t assume fair-trade principles govern the conditions of the men who fetch it to you. You would be mistaken.
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Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?
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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.
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I can govern by bringing people together. And also, I’ve been tested in a way no one else has. I was governor on September 11th, and I’m proud of my leadership in bringing New York through that time. And when I left, we were stronger, we were safer, and we were more united than at any time in my lifetime.
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Though builders may build, in the main they follow the plans of architects. Teachers teach, but they must have a text. Politicians govern, but only upon the flow of commentary that raises them up or casts them down.
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By nature, every individual has the right to govern himself; and governments, whether founded on majorities or minorities, must derive their right from the assent, expressed or implied, of the governed,, and be subject to such limitations as they may impose.
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Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can’t play cricket without any rules.
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State-building can not be imposed. Its foundation must be a shared understanding between those who govern, and those who give their consent to be governed – the ‘deal’ between citizen and state.
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Only Boris Johnson will get the best Brexit deal for Britain, defeat Jeremy Corbyn’s divisive shambles of an opposition, and govern the United Kingdom in the national interest.
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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
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You can’t have an industrial revolution, you can’t have democracies, you can’t have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.
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Molecular chemistry, the chemistry of the covalent bond, is concerned with uncovering and mastering the rules that govern the structures, properties and transformations of molecular species.
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I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively. And the net effect was, during my eight years, 1.3 million jobs were created. We left the state better off because I applied conservative principles in a purple state the right way, and people rose up.
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How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.
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The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.
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Although our body language governs the way other people perceive us, our body language also governs how we perceive ourselves and how those perceptions become reinforced through our own behavior, our interactions, and even our physiology.
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In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.
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The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.
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China is a very big and complicated country; it’s not easy to govern. But with courage and unity, China will certainly overcome all difficulties and continue to develop and move forward.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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To manipulate the immune system, you need to find the key bottlenecks that govern the system. The T-cell is an absolute bottleneck.
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Every president since Nixon has embraced a policy of ‘self-determination without termination’ – the idea that Native Americans are best equipped to govern themselves. Trump is breaking with this position.
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If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there’s nothing the United States can do, militarily or otherwise, that can solve those problems. They have to assume the primary responsibility to govern themselves.
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The government should do its job. The government’s job is, in fact, to run the country, to manage the country, to govern the country. And governance is an important thing, not application where it suits one so, to micro control where it suits them on the other hand.
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On the House side, typically the party that has the White House loses the majority in the midterms – that’s been the historic trend. We want to buck that trend. We want to deliver for President Trump majorities in the House and the Senate so that he can govern.
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Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
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The most difficult part of Brexit will be to figure out the trade regime between the U.K. and the rest of the E.U. because the level of trade integration between the members of the E.U. is the deepest in the world and integrates regulations that govern how products and services are produced and sold within the E.U.
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The Tory party is at is strongest when it is in tune with the hopes and aspirations of Britain’s hard-working, law-abiding majority, and when it governs through clear Conservative principles.
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The biggest problem for the Republican Party has never been its primary calendar, its campaign tactics, or a lack of trainings. The party’s biggest problem is what it believes, what it says, and how it governs.
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Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.
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Attacking the ability of black people to govern through specious claims that we are a danger to white people is nothing short of disgraceful.
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The president has to govern.
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When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in my opinion, sterile.
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Fifa urgently needs a fresh start and transparency is key. Moving its headquarters is the only way the association will attract new people, many of whom are likely to have long lost faith with Fifa’s ability to govern.
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Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
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Judgments that give an impression that we can disregard the Constitution for political expediency, or to solve what we regard as current problems, set a dangerous precedence which will make it difficult to govern in future or to make ordinary citizens to abide by the Constitution.
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The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that’s going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.
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Although England, and the rest of the United Kingdom, possesses momentous constitutional texts and significant statutes, since the 1600s there has been no systematic attempt to codify the powers and limits of the British executive and the rights of those it governs.
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Democracy is the only civilized way to govern a country.
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‘Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
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There’s a lot of the Midwest and the West in Justice Rehnquist’s approach to constitutional law. And by that I mean a recognition that people know pretty well how to govern themselves, that government that is closest to the people is apt to be more responsive to their legitimate concerns and needs.
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And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras.
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And under our system, much like you see in the U.K., of course, a party working with another party can form a coalition and govern the country.
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That government is best which governs least.
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One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
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Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.
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I would like to think that enough examples of non-compromise are going to start people thinking that there must be a better way to try to govern the country.
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I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.
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One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: ‘Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.’ Your opinions don’t really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.
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The only conduct that merits the drastic remedy of impeachment is that which subverts our system of government or renders the president unfit or unable to govern.
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There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
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What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point – the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
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None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.
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I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.
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Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.
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To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.
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It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
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As prime minister, I would relinquish to citizens as much of my social, political, and economic control as possible, leaving people to cultivate their own personal prosperity and to govern their own affairs as directly as possible.
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President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan‘s capacity to secure and govern itself.
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To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
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When I dig around in the roots of how we imagine ourselves, how we govern, how we live together in communities – how we treat one another when we are not being stupid – what I find is deeply Aboriginal.
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America is fundamentally exceptional. No one in the history of the world had ever done anything to compare with what the Founders did, creating a fragile mechanism by which men and women could actually govern themselves.
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If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. It’s not clear how they will do it, but it never is.
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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.
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I’ve heard, ‘Temer is very fragile, poor little thing; he doesn’t know how to govern.’ Gibberish!
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As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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We don’t want to govern the country without democratic institutions.
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The governor should be a public servant, who listens, brings people together and governs with compassion.
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At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama’s fitness than his willingness: Why doesn’t he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?
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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.
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They that govern the most make the least noise.
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On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
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The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama’s view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the U.N.
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Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want – an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we’ll do well as a party.
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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Britain must govern Britain and nothing less will do.
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Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.
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Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.
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I’m not Tory but I do happen to think that the Government should be allowed to govern.
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Membership of the E.U. makes Britain literally ungovernable, in the sense that no administration elected by the people can govern the country.
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How do you govern by captaining the ship? How do you win without the trust of the crew?
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
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It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern.
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You should govern not by partisanship, but by leadership.
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Among the responsibilities of each citizen in a participatory democracy is keeping ourselves sufficiently informed so that we can participate effectively, argue our positions honorably, and hopefully, forge sufficient consensus to understand each other and then to govern.
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Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose.
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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.
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Politics is a process, and there has to be a continual conversation between those who govern and those who give their consent to be governed.
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America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
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I think that I’m the same Jan Brewer I was when I first ran for office way back in 1982, which is a few years ago. I always tried to do what I believed is right and I’ve always voted the way that I believe was the right way for my constituency, and that’s what I’m doing when I govern. So, I’m the same Jan Brewer.
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I consider myself an activist who governs.
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People want our elected officials to govern and for government to work.
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To a certain extent, platforms are platitudes that you test when you get to govern. You have to run those priorities up against the opposition and decide what’s most important.
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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government – that is despotism.
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Believing in the good of humanity is a revolutionary act – it means that we don’t need all those managers and CEO‘s, kings and generals. That we can trust people to govern themselves and make their own decisions.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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