Quotes on the topic: Govern


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I don't want to govern the Palestinians. I don't want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state.


It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians.


I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.


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.


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


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


How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.


One cannot govern with 'buts'.


To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.


What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.


To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.


Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.


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.


The best way for someone to govern is to set an example.


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.


The dead govern the living.


Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.


It is in Israel's interest not to govern the Palestinians but for the Palestinians to govern themselves in their own state.


I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.


Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.