"When you're governing, it's all about compromise," he added.
But the reality is, Pakistan is a nuclear power; it's a big country; you've got an area of that country that's never been governed; it's all tribal; it's deep with religious problems and history and conflict.
Sobriety, prayer, illness, governing: it is obviously all too much for him.
"He is a man who profoundly studied Brazil before governing it, taking part in all of the important intellectual debates of his time, never letting himself be limited by any one theory," said Paulo Sotero, director of the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington.
In the colonial coffeehouse, "you could find pompous crown officers, the upper classes, and governing politicians, mixing it all up with ragtag revolutionaries".
That means persuading voters that it will govern for all, not just for the fat cats.
For the reason I'll come to shortly, I recently began asking people: "Who do you think should govern the internet?" Most have replied that the internet should not be governed at all; it's fine as it is, and any suggestion that a UN agency might adopt the role provokes snorts of derision.
However, despite the broad scope of biology, there are certain general and unifying concepts within it that govern all study and research, consolidating it into single, coherent fields.
Indeed, it will find it ever harder to govern at all.
Arthur is left bereft, only to die at the end, wondering if it is possible to govern at all.
In 1535 Spain established the Viceroyalty of New Spain to govern all the land it laid claim to north of the Isthmus of Panama.
