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Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. -- Lao Tzu
Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion. -- Thomas Frank
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. -- Jean Baudrillard
Governing involves choosing and making choices between competing goods. -- Jonah Goldberg
Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish. -- Laozi
Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility. -- Susan Rice
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it. -- Laozi
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. -- Laozi
We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal. -- Hugh Sidey
Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union. -- Robert Dallek
My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me. -- Bela Kun
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
Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation. -- Augusto Pinochet
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. -- Brian Baird
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin. -- Gloria Steinem
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. -- Michel de Montaigne
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing. -- Vladimir Lenin
I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do. -- George Pataki
A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country. -- Wendell Willkie
What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil. -- Hugo Chavez
A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well. -- Louisa May Alcott
In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance. -- Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers. -- Robert Ballard
Every now and then, President Obama sorta drops his veil. He's less coy about his philosophy, he sort of reveals his true governing philosophy, what he really believes. -- Paul Ryan
In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear. -- Breyten Breytenbach
I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing. -- Jesse Ventura
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
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. -- Laozi
My goal was to do the best job I could in governing the state of Wisconsin, in some cases making very tough decisions to have to bring our spending in line with the resources we had at the state level. -- Scott McCallum
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society? -- Rose George
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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
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. -- Dmitri Mendeleev
Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different. -- Paul Wolfowitz
The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. -- Nikola Tesla
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
The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems. -- Paul Ryan
Campaigning is different from governing. -- Barack Obama
There is no law governing all things. -- Giordano Bruno
The unknown is the governing principle of war. -- Ferdinand Foch
The art of governing mankind by deceiving them. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy. -- Scott McClellan
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult. -- Leo Tolstoy
There's a very big difference between campaigning and governing. -- Richard Stengel
I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.' -- Ian Hacking
Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing. -- John Fletcher
In tactics, action is the governing rule of war. -- Ferdinand Foch
Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change. -- Estelle Morris
Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change. -- Estelle Morris
Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing. -- Augusto Pinochet
The angels are ministering spirits; they are not governing spirits. -- John Brown
Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self. -- George W. Bush
The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood. -- Jay Wright Forrester
I always say that campaigning and governing are two different things. -- Barack Obama
There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster. -- Tony Snow
Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me. -- M. E. Lazarus
History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability. -- Nicolas Gomez Davila
We can't have a Twitter president. This is serious stuff, this governing. -- Charles Schumer
... governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting ... -- Gertrude Stein
Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs -- Alexander Hamilton
You must begin to live in harmony with the laws governing the universe. -- Wallace D. Wattles
The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing. -- Laozi
The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes. -- William Greider
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Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else. -- Tom Coburn
No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much. -- James Hilton
Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe. -- Bill Frist
Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle. -- B. R. Ambedkar
The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience . -- Matthew Arnold
Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard. -- Genghis Khan
The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest. -- Stephen Ambrose
Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. -- Marcus Aurelius
When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children. -- Indira Gandhi
I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing. -- Tony Abbott
The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly. -- Katherine Neville
Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy. -- Joseph Campbell
The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia. -- Frank Carlucci
I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions. -- Hugo Chavez
Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation -- Tony Benn
It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing. -- Nat King Cole
I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives. -- David McCallum
Mexico established a unique three-part governing system shared by the government, the information commission and civil society organisations. -- Mo Ibrahim
Ministers must not be able to set rules governing solicitors on a whim, to suit their own requirements. -- Kevin Martin
If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered. -- Joan Robinson
Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy. -- Tom Clancy
Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced. -- Chris Hayes
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind. -- Thomas Paine
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? -- Georges Bernanos
An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease. -- Andrew Taylor Still
As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future. -- Robert Genn
If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive. -- Oren Lyons
If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else. -- Ronald Reagan
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life... -- Barbara Tuchman
The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves. -- Beth Simone Noveck
The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just. -- Thomas Jefferson
Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted. -- Elliott Abrams
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable. -- Charles Dickens
The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self- government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race. -- Albert J. Beveridge
I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed. -- Samuel Johnson
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. -- Aristotle
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
The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own. -- Charles Hodge
Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery. -- Bob McDonnell
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people. -- Woodrow Wilson
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. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing. -- Larry Merchant
We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time. -- Paul Hawken
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
Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government. -- John Stuart Mill
Though, when a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes. -- George Washington
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
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. -- Elbert Hubbard
Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election. -- Juan Williams
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
Money is an inanimate object. It can do good works or bad works depending on the hands that wield it, and the hearts governing those hands. -- Donald L. Hicks
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. -- James F. Cooper
REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience. -- Ambrose Bierce

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