Governing Quotes
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Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the Tao and evil will have no power. Not that it isn't there, but you'll be able to step out of its way. Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.
Lao Tzu
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I will fulfill my mandate and focus entirely on governing from now until February 2004 -- at which time my work will be done and at which time my successor will be chosen,
Jean Chretien
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The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
William Greider
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The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao. 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. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao Tzu
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The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
Stephen Ambrose
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Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it.
Sallust
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We received a terrible legacy from the old regime, which was incapable of governing in a time of peace and still less was able to do so while waging war.
Alexander Guchkov
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Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
Lao Tzu
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The Democratic Party is a criminal enterprise that would rather rule over the ruins than be part of governing a happy and successful Republic.
Bill Whittle
