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In America, we have a two-party system, and the American Constitution is a piece of brilliance, but they did not know when they set it up we would just have a two-party system. It just so happens that our electorate pushed towards the two-party system because it's a very good way to govern.
Jamie Dimon / Business Person
Brilliance
Electorate
Good Way
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Two-Party
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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.
Hampton Sides /
Competing
Groups
Time Freedom Great
Applied
Expressing
Freedom Time Great
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Rightly
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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.
John Roberts / Author
Approach
Closest
Midwest
Recognition
West
Government Justice Law
Concerns
Constitutional
Govern
Legitimate
Responsive
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One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.
Viggo Mortensen / Actor
Government
Care
Convincing
Insignificant
Isolated
People
Take Care
Trust Me
Govern
Let Us
Opinions
Stays
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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.
George Pataki / Former Governor Of New York
Leadership
Lifetime
September
September 11th
Stronger
Tested
Time Together People
Bringing
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Safer
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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.
Dan Gelber / Attorney
Engagement
Florida
Legislature
Ought
Predictable
Scenarios
Rules
Believed
Govern
Interactions
Juries
Opposed
Proper
Provide
Sought
Strongly
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Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they're good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which the relationship must always pass. When this happens, the rules become the basis for the relationship and, in a sense, become a substitute for the relationship.
Miroslav Volf / Theologian
Relationship
Bad Things
Good Things
Helping
Substitutes
Good Always Bad
Good Relationship Always
Steer
Rules
Good Relationship Bad
Basis
Gate
Govern
Substitute
Narrow
Pass
Though
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Solutions are complex, and I continue to worry that Trump didn't fully appreciate the complexity of what's going on. Consequently, I worry about whether he's going to make the problems a whole lot better... But I am a Republican, and we really should give the guy a chance to govern and hope he's successful.
J. D. Vance /
Complexity
Solutions
Consequently
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President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.
David Petraeus / Former Director Of The Central Intelligence Agency
War
Achieve
Afghanistan
Capacity
Country
Democracy
Poorest
President Obama
Realistic
Secure
Years
Obama
Advanced
Aspirations
Countries
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Industrialized
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I think that I'm the same Jan Brewer I was when I first ran for office way back in 1982, which is a few years ago. I always tried to do what I believed is right and I've always voted the way that I believe was the right way for my constituency, and that's what I'm doing when I govern. So, I'm the same Jan Brewer.
Jan Brewer / Governor Of Arizona
Ran
Right Way
Believed
Believe Way Doing
Govern
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The most difficult part of Brexit will be to figure out the trade regime between the U.K. and the rest of the E.U. because the level of trade integration between the members of the E.U. is the deepest in the world and integrates regulations that govern how products and services are produced and sold within the E.U.
Arancha Gonzalez /
Difficult
Integration
Members
Within
World Will Rest
Brexit
Rest
Figure
Govern
Produced
Regime
Services
Sold
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We know that dismantling old oppressive regimes is a great deal faster and easier than building new flourishing democracies. Chinggis Khaan once said, 'It was easier to conquer the world on horseback than to dismount and govern.' True validation of democracy lies less in what we tear down, and more in what we build.
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj / President Of Mongolia
Conquer
Faster
Flourishing
Horseback
Regimes
Validation
Dismantling
Govern
Great Deal
Oppressive
Tear
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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.
Cesare Beccaria / Philosopher
Artificial
Comparison
Conventions
Principles
Regard
Life Happiness Men
Alike
Derived
Govern
Mortal
Revelation
Sources
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In coastal waters rich in runoff, plankton can swarm densely, a million in a drop of water. They color the sea brown and green where deltas form from big rivers, or cities dump their sewage. Tiny yet hugely important, plankton govern how well the sea harvests the sun's bounty, and so are the foundation of the ocean's food chain.
Gregory Benford / Fictioneer
Ocean
Bounty
Brown
Cities
Coastal
Color
Food Chain
Green
Rich
Rivers
Sea
Sewage
Sun
Tiny
Water
Chain
Drop
Govern
Hugely
Million
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From the directives that govern the way we do business to the chilling effect of the eurozone crisis on our exports, the European Union pervades our daily lives like never before. Like many of my colleagues on the Tory benches, I believe that renegotiating the terms of our membership is vital for this country's long-term prosperity.
Dominic Raab / Politician
Colleagues
European Union
Eurozone
Long Term
Membership
Prosperity
Bench
Chilling
Daily Lives
Directive
Exports
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Vital
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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.
Marco Rubio / United States Senator
Creator
Eternity
Life Faith My Life
Life Faith Always
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In The End
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Patterns of repetition govern each day, week, year, and lifetime. 'Personal habits' is one term we use to describe the most common of these repeated patterns. But I say these habits are sacred because they give deliberate structure to our lives. Structure gives us a sense of security. And that sense of security is the ground of meaning.
Robert Fulghum / Author
Common
Deliberate
Each Day
Lifetime
Our Lives
Patterns
Sacred
Security
Structure
Term
Week
Describe
Gives
Govern
Ground
Habits
Meaning
Personal
Repeated
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The Left discovered that its post-electoral strategy of constant confrontation was actually helping Felipe Calderon and his popularity instead of undermining it. So Marcelo Ebrard, the mayor of Mexico City, who's a very savvy politician, he changed course. He decided to actually govern instead of simply trying to bring the Calderon government down.
Denise Dresser /
Confrontation
Mexico
Mexico City
Savvy
Strategy
Undermining
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Mayor
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