Govern Quotations

It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West.

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are more bad than good. That you know if you do something, it'll be seized by the rich to exploit the poor.

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.

It is clear that it is not man who has created the universe - whether you believe in God or in gods or deny any divine presence - man cannot alter the laws that govern the universe without damaging it.

The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.

He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

I think that if Republicans are given the reins of leadership in the House or Senate or both, we will have to govern in a way - at least put forward solutions whether or not the president goes along with them or not, that deal with these long-term challenges.

People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.

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.

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.

We must govern from the middle, or we will not be able to govern at all.

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

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.

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.

I've always wanted to find the rules that govern everything. It's amazing that such rules exist. It's even more amazing that we can find them.

Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose.

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.

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.

As Indians, we take great pride in the fact that we are a progressive nation. We are proud of our democracy, our secular values as well as our entrepreneurial spirit. We are appalled by the harsh laws that govern women's lives in Taliban-dominated lands. Yet we turn a blind eye to the injustices that our own society continues to heap upon women.

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.

The 1994 elections that brought Newt Gingrich to power in the House decisively shaped the remaining years of Bill Clinton's presidency, pushing him further to the right and bringing out his latent tendency to govern every day as if an election were being held the next.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Doctrines don't govern policy. They provide a conceptual framework by which policymakers approach their decisions. But there is no such thing as a doctrine that controls policy in every way.

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.

The people who own the country ought to govern it

There does seem to be in the U.S. now an ideology and an entrenchment that has stopped people doing what they are hired to do, which is govern rather than run for office the whole time.

What we intend to do between now and then is not to play chicken with the opposition. It's to govern and progress on our legislative agenda.

We have people who have been stripped of not only their worldly possessions, but their dignity, ... Those of us here govern at ground zero. Everyone couldn't make it into the Astrodome, we had to meet the people where they are.

The plan for the Middle East that the Americans are selling is a plan the Lebanese have had for a long time. Now for the first time in our history we have the opportunity. And each of us has to ask ourselves, are we ready and capable to govern ourselves, yes or no?

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.

I have changed my ministers, but I have not changed my measures; I am still for moderation and will govern by it.

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.

IBM is uniquely poised to connect multiple development teams through a secured, distributed environment. Systems engineers rely on the IBM Rational Software Development Platform to collaborate and govern their overall software development process.

I believe you govern from your personal experience,

I'm a great believer in governments doing as little as possible and people power doing the rest, so I'm in favour of governments being there to govern in the areas that need governing, not a whole heap of other things that they stick their sticky fingers into.

If we win, we will govern as Iraqis, not just as Shias. We will ensure the participation of other communities.

He has to operate under the rules that govern the rest of the staff -- even if he's rich and famous,

He feared that if the South should succeed in leaving the Union, it would prove to the world that ordinary people could not govern themselves.

The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it, ... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.

Here's the problem -- fuel, fuel and fuel. When you're looking at a bill that is $600 million more than last year, you have to govern yourself accordingly.

Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them

It is important for the public to take advantage of this opportunity because the city council and their viewpoints are what will govern the city for the next couple years, ... I think the citizens would want to make an effort to become aware of the candidates' viewpoints or their feelings on certain matters before they make a decision on how they will vote.

It is in Israel's interest not to govern the Palestinians, but for the Palestinians to govern themselves, ... the opportunity to renew direct negotiations according to the steps of the road map.

Laws are rules, made by people who govern by means of organized violence, for non-compliance with which the non-complier is subjected to blows, to loss of liberty, or even to being murdered.

I will govern according to principle. The time has come for us to believe again.

Our generation has been taught to think in terms of the evolution of the universe, but the fact is that physics didn't get into evolution until the 1960's - it was just this biology thing. Then we learned how the universe is evolving. Now we're going a step further and understanding that even the laws that govern the universe are evolving!

Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency.

Responsive leaders prefer knowledge and information to be spread as widely as possible among the population, because an informed public is necessary to govern effectively, independent thought produces original ideas and is the key factor by which we progress as a society. When independent thought is stifled society is and will remain stagnant until it is free to flourish once again.

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.

Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

I think he is still trying to govern as a legislator instead of as a governor. He can't accept the fact that not every constituency group is going to agree with you. When you try to please everyone, you usually end up pleasing no one.

Win or lose, he realized that it was going to be very difficult to govern and that the better part of valor was to step aside.

We hope he will be allowed to govern and that outside interference in Haiti's internal affairs ceases.

We've been formed because we want a much higher profile so that backroom deals don't govern how this golf course is used. What's been going on with this golf course is like what happened with the pension scandal. This is a bunch of people who think they own the city and don't think the law applies to them. They don't think they're responsible to the community, and they think we're going to roll over.

We came together as a party and now we will govern for all Canadians.

Those are waging the struggle at present who want to remain uncontrollable and, shielding themselves with the head of state, to have a possibility to govern the country in the worst traditions not to be answerable for anything, but speak on behalf of the president.

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.

We are ready to lead and govern in a bipartisan way. We should work together in a positive way.

What you've done is effectively cut off any discourse or dialogue. If we're only going to govern by anger, then we've lost the game.

wants us to be ready to govern on day one, and so he pledged to work with us.

The explosive growth of the Internet has provided a means for gambling operations to evade existing anti-gambling laws. These Internet gambling Web sites typically operate offshore and often serve as a prime vehicle for money laundering and other criminal enterprises. Our bill sensibly updates federal law to keep pace with new technologies by bringing the Internet within the fold of the anti-gambling restrictions that govern telephones.

We have consulted with counsel every step of the way and have followed the law and regulations that govern our work,

There has been conflict with ICANN about who should govern the Internet. We wouldn't be surprised if the Internet became fragmented, because some areas of the world really don't feel included.

The party that would play games with out stability and progress does not deserve to govern Spain,

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.

We need to restore the people's confidence in the party to win the year-end elections. We need to be prepared to govern again,

To manipulate the immune system, you need to find the key bottlenecks that govern the system. The T-cell is an absolute bottleneck.

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

We focused on issues, but made it clear that we in the SPD want to govern this nation with Gerhard Schroeder as chancellor.

We feel the pulse ...You can't fake it. Even if the music is not actually on - people of New Orleans actually hear and feel what is called the second line parade rhythm. And really, that is a continuation of the African rhythm that has existed in New Orleans since the beginning. All the rhythms that went through Congo Square and came to the streets in the jazz, those rhythms sort of govern our lives.

We are very mindful of this. We haven't suspended the laws that govern the way in which people have to behave ethically and legally.

Believe it or not, there are members of Congress who actually want to govern and get stuff done. Unfortunately, there are others whose agendas and strategies serve to advance their own interests and expand their donor base.

Attachment to the past and fears concerning the future not only govern the way you select the things you own but also represent the criteria by which you make choices in every aspect of your life, including your relationships with people and your job.

DISOBEY, v.t. To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command.His right to govern me is clear as day, My duty manifest to disobey; And if that fit observance e'er I shut May I and duty be alike undone. --Israfel Brown

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.

And when I'm president, I can tell you this, my faith will not just influence the way I'll govern as president, it will influence the way I live my life. Because in the end, my goal is not simply to live on this earth for 80 years, but to live an eternity with my creator. And I will always allow my faith to influence everything I do.

There was a few that decided they wanted to take over and rule above the govern of the church.

These are unique features of the coastal landscape. We've got to do something to govern access. People never thought about developing these islands in the past, but now, it's just a matter of time before people look at them.

These are serious questions, which, if true, raise doubts about his ability to govern this state. You need to think about whether this is a risk California should take,

The statute appears to cover the conduct of third parties and not pregnant mothers. If you compare statutes from other places, they read significantly different. They clearly would govern the conduct of a pregnant person, but this is not at all clear in Virginia.

These movements are leading the country to a point that is unsustainable; I can't continue to govern under these circumstances.

The thing that Tea Parties have to understand, you can't govern if you don't get elected.

Project and portfolio management is critical as development is increasingly distributed, as organizations adopt service oriented architectures, and as audits require evidence of regulatory compliance. With IBM's new project and portfolio management software, organizations can more effectively govern their software and systems development projects.

The moral and political principles that govern men are derived from three sources: revelation, natural law, and the artificial conventions of society. With regard to its main purpose, there is no comparison between the first and the others; but all three are alike in that they all lead towards happiness in this mortal life.

decisions about who should govern a country are best made by the citizens of that nation through an open and transparent process.

The business of Hollywood, if you don't have other things going on, it will eat you up and spit you out... If you take what those people and that social structure think of you - if you let it govern your life - you might as well just kill yourself.

You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.

This bill is an unprecedented attack on the due process rights of victims injured by the misconduct of an industry that seeks to escape the legal rules that govern the rest of us. We believe state and federal courts across this nation are prepared to strike it down,

This is a major defeat for the enemies of freedom in Iraq and around the world, and sends a message that despite the best efforts of the terrorists, people throughout Iraq are eager to govern themselves and live in liberty.

This is the ticket that will win in June, win in November and be ready to govern in January.

It's our responsibility not to govern by polls and surveys.

does have a clear mandate to govern this country.

The Attorney General has followed all DOJ guidelines which govern these decisions.