#govern

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. ↗

— Mario Cuomo

#govern #poetry #prose #you

In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#been #case #court #even #government

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#few #governed #laws #observed #state

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#government #laws #regulations #right #rules

When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#gets #government #i #involved #look

I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government. ↗

— Jean Claude Duvalier

#deep #express #feel #government #i

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#best #completely #democratic #democratic government #fulfills

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#constitution #designed #government #neutral #off

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#distinct #drama #energy #epic #experiences

Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan. ↗

— Bob Filner

#beijing #chinese #chinese government #coming #cross