Cardinal Richelieu Quotes

I read Mitch Daniels's book, 'Keeping the Republic,' several times.

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.

Mitch Daniels in Indiana was the best governor in America for eight years. I've gone to Indianapolis to study with him.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

We as governors, whether we're Republican or Democrat, we really believe that we know what's best for our people. And in Arizona, and particularly we're very interested about natural resources.

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable, the art of the next best.

There was a time that you could say the least government was the best—but not in the nation's most populous state.

I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated

I'm a former governor, and so I was the chief executive, and when the legislature wasn't in session, I was running the state.

One must realise that it is not a child's play to run a government.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

Every cook must learn to rule the State.

A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for, with a very few examples, he will be more merciful than those who, from excess of tenderness, allow disorders to arise, from whence spring murders and rapine; for these as a rule injure the whole community, while the executions carried out by the prince injure only one individual. And of all princes, it is impossible for a new prince to escape the name of cruel, new states being always full of dangers.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.

In almost all matters, the real question should be: why are we letting government handle this?

Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in Government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead.