Govern Quotes - page 14

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. (Allen Weinstein)
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. Its not clear how they will do it, but it never is. View quote
Bob Kerrey
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. View quote
Barbara Mikulski
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. View quote
Charles Ruff
The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society. View quote
Claudio Hummes
While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions. View quote
Dan Gelber
One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned. View quote
Ed Gillespie
The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies. View quote
Ethan Zuckerman
Obama and his associates are fantastic campaigners but have little ability or skill to govern. View quote
Edward Klein
Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create. View quote
Howard Rheingold
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. (Howard Rheingold)
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. View quote
Jan Brewer
Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry. View quote
Johannes Peter Muller
America is a land where men govern, but women rule. View quote
John Mason Brown
My plan is to govern as long as I can. View quote
Kathleen Wynne
Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they're good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which the relationship must always pass. When this happens, the rules become the basis for the relationship and, in a sense, become a substitute for the relationship. View quote
Miroslav Volf
If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races. View quote
Nelson A. Miles
No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised. View quote
Roger Goodell
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? View quote
Ron Fournier
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. View quote
Steve Forbes
People are not going to reelect Barack Obama. But will the new president govern as a real conservative? We're going to have to apply the heat to make sure. (Steve Forbes)
We must govern from the middle, or we will not be able to govern at all. View quote
Tom Daschle
Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives? View quote
William H. Wharton
What you wear can largely govern your feelings and your emotions, and how you look influences the way people regard you. So fashion plays an important role on both the practical level and the aesthetic level. View quote
Rei Kawakubo
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice. View quote
Harry S. Truman