Two vital needs for our nation now are to restore constitutional rights that have been eroded, checks and balances among the three branches of government and privacy rights of citizens; and to ensure the responsibility of the government to govern wisely and well in providing for common needs of our citizens.
The earliest Americans, according to the popular imagination, were models of virtue, governing themselves wisely through the fabled town-hall meetings of New England, and through a variety of voluntary associations.
Once Republicans stop thinking like a bloc, they do take seriously the responsibility to govern wisely".
In this dissertation, I argue that to govern wisely, we need to remake large-scale social experiments to follow values of democracy.
But no Haitian leader or leaders, however good their intentions, will be able to govern wisely if they have no institutions to rely on.
To govern wisely on the basis of our distinct liberal principles and to set out a compelling vision for a more liberal future.
Another PM, a French one in the form of Pierre Mendès France, wisely said: "To govern is to choose, however difficult the choices". Mrs May has not made a choice.
Plato, living in an Athens whose democratic whims had resulted in the disaster of the Peloponnesian War and the execution of Socrates, had little faith in the power of the people to govern wisely or well.
Their task is to use all the power at their disposal to govern wisely right now.Barack Obama has struggled to escape from the legacy of Mr Bush's presidency.
But in order to govern wisely, justly and effectively, wisdom from all sources should be welcomed.
However, he has not yet demonstrated that he always has sufficient skills to govern wisely throughout his career.
