Govern Quotes

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.

The majority of people wherever found ought in all questions to govern the minority.

Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others.

If You are a man who leads, that your way to govern may freely travel, You should do outstanding things.

Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule.

If you want to govern the nation, you should first be able to govern San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles.

[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.

The United States is a very difficult country to govern.

This I must say for Scotland. Here [London] I sit and govern with my pen. I write and it is done, and … I govern Scotland now, which others could not do by the sword.

If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.

But that's fine, because I like to have control of the ambience.

In order to govern you have to feed the news cycle

I took over a Brazil in the midst of a profound ethical, moral, and economic crisis. We are committed to changing our history... We want to govern by example.

If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self

A lot of journalists help us to better understand the world by zooming out and sometimes zooming in on a really important case but sort of helping us to get a grasp of what are the structural forces that govern our lives and our societies and that is incredibly important.

What we need in Washington now is a strong Republican president who knows how to govern.

Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.