"There's more to governing, there's more to being president, than speechwriting," he added.
As Max Weber put it in "Politics as a Vocation", in governing, there is a difference between an "ethic of responsibility", resisting aggression, and an "ethic of ultimate ends", which uses power, especially violence, to attain a political goal.
After casting his vote on Tuesday, Netanyahu told reporters: "In order to prevent the left-wing parties from governing, there is just one thing that needs to be done: to close the gap between the Likud and Labor and to vote for Likud".
BPC is now tracking Congress's progress against our recommendations through the quarterly Healthy Congress Index, a long-term effort to bring accountability to Congress and help people answer the question: "How is Congress governing?" There is more work to do, but the early signs are that Congress has started off in the right direction.
I shouldn't wonder if he didn't, despite this, sympathise with David Cameron, who on Today, Radio 4, 18 January, vulgarly regretted the finding that, among the millions he governs, there are "38,000 Muslim women who really don't speak hardly any English at all".
With the area struggling to attract officials to govern, there is no reason for the insurgents to abandon the strategy.
While schools try to desperately improve our citizenship lessons to include a little more on how our country is governed, there's a gap in the political activity of young people which desperately needs filling.
As the Roman empire became increasingly difficult to govern, there was a strong motive for those in power to find an ideological force that could hold the people under imperial control.
Among the governing bodies there are fears that the baby could be thrown out with the bathwater.
There are more voters who think the Conservatives would do a better job of governing than there are voters who think they would do a worse job.
