A Democrat has to show the toughness to govern. People don't doubt that Republicans will be tough.
Al From

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
Algernon Sydney

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
John Mason Brown

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George Eliot

Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
Orson Pratt

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.
Steve Forbes

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
Laurence Sterne

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
Francois Fenelon

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
George Bernard Shaw

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.
Robert Grosseteste

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
Henry Brougham

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.
Russell M. Nelson

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.
Vladimir Lenin

Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.
Jack Kingston

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
Thomas Fuller

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.
Martin Van Buren

Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.
Pete du Pont

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
Lao Tzu

He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.
Philip Massinger

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
Alexander Hamilton