Word: governed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe it is only ethical that PBHA Inc. govern itself as is expected of a non-profit corporation--that is, with a Board of Trustees openly responsible for overseeing the best interests of the corporation," he said in the letter...
...dealings and unethical fundraising tactics, many of us justified electing him to a second term--myself included--by believing that we should separate Bill Clinton the man from Bill Clinton the President. We naively believed that the alleged problems of his personal life did not affect his ability to govern the country effectively...
...that is why character matters. No system will ever be perfect and we must rely on the judgment of those who work within its confines. Bill Clinton's propensity for marital infidelity and shady business dealings may not have a direct relationship on his ability to govern. However, they do serve to indicate what kind of player he is. And, when the fragile institutions of democracy are at stake we should do our best to deny access to those who might do irreparable damage...
Those who perpetuate the idea that political processes can help us to slip out of the network of joys and pains that social relations create fail to account for the sense in which the engine driving us cannot move without these fuels. Actually, the forces that govern us are better described as dialectical, involving both our individual impulses and the dictates of our social surroundings...
...idea of the First Amendment is that in a marketplace of ideas, including ideas that are wildly unpopular and possibly even offensive, society will discover the best policies and values by which to govern themselves. Its purpose is not to grant free license of personal offense to those that are too cowardly to claim responsibility for their words...