I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.
- Stephen ColbertNo doubt he will be set free, for Lord Mansfield keeps a Black in his house which governs him and the whole family.
- DidoMy book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.
- Todd GitlinThere seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.
- Greta GarboBut, if you look at the Taliban in Afghanistan and the way they govern, and the Saudi regime and the way it governs, they`re not very close.
- Alain de VogueWherever you see a man who gives someone else`s corruption, someone else`s prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.
- Alison NordstromThe intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
- Alistair GoodmanThere is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
- Allie ZazzaliBut this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
- Allison HannaOn the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
- American CouncilAnd, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras.
- Andrew CortyAs accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as myself
- Anne BarnettIn America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever
- Oscar WildeThat government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
- Thomas JeffersonThat government is best which governs least.
- Thomas Paine