Governors Quotes:

As your governor, you’re going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page, saying ‘Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell.’

- Paul LePage

source: "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 1, 2010.

topic: Pages, Hell, Governors

I don’t want to be a lonely governor.

- Jim Gibbons

topic: Lonely, Want, Governors

I believe in Governor Romney. I believe in him as a leader.

- Chris Christie

source: "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, cbsnews.cbs.com. September 30,2012.

topic: Believe, Leader, Governors, Governor Romney

When I was governor, if I told a joke in front of the press - I learned. I would go, "That was a joke, joke, joke," and I'd say it three times.

- Jesse Ventura

source: "Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

topic: Three, Jokes, Governors

I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!

- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

topic: Wish, Governors

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: 1913 Col Pickering and Alfred Doolittle. Pygmalion, act 2.

topic: Men, Moral, Governors

Unfortunately, Governor Bush is a Pat Robertson Republican who will lose to Al Gore.

- John McCain

source: "Forgive me, Bush asks Catholic voter" by Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2000.

topic: Als, Republican, Governors

Beautiful, luscious and flowing. Atop the governor's head.

- Rick Perry

topic: Beautiful, Governors

I don't go around every other day calling for governors to resign. I don't think I ever have.

- Bernie Sanders

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Thinking, Calling, Governors

I never imagined, never imagined I would have the opportunity to be governor of the state that I love.

- Mike Pence

source: Source: www.politico.com

topic: Opportunity, States, Governors

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

- Hugo Black

source: Hugo Black (1975). “My Father: A Remembrance”, Random House (NY)

topic: Freedom Of The Press, Governors, Presses

I took action as governor to preserve the sanctity of life.

- Mitt Romney

topic: Action, Sanctity, Governors, Sanctity Of Life

Governors should be defined not just by what they do and say, but who they surround themselves with.

- Scott Walker

topic: Should, Governors, Defined

if the people are to be our governors, they must arm themselves with knowledge.

- James Madison

topic: People, Arms, Governors

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Happiness, Government, Safety, Governors, Purpose Of Government

Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.

- Matthew Arnold

source: Matthew Arnold, Stefan Collini (1993). “Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

topic: World, Force, Ready, Governors

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

- Upton Sinclair

source: Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

topic: Wisdom, Men, Community, Inconvenient Truth, Best Investment

I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference.

- Bill Richardson

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Differences, People, Making A Difference, Governors

Certainly being governor is an important job

- Marco Rubio

topic: Jobs, Important, Governors, Important Jobs

Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

- David Wilkerson

topic: Change, Judging, Wicked, Defying, Governors

The richest persons in Africa are heads of state, governors and ministers. So every 'educated' African who wants to be rich - and there is nothing wrong with wanting to be rich - heads straight into government or politics.

- George Ayittey

topic: Government, Want, Rich, Governors

All I can tell you is when the governor calls, I answer his phone.

- George W. Bush

source: George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.1386, Government Printing Office

topic: Phones, Answers, Bushism, Governors

My sense is, as governor I've gotten a lot of stuff done.

- Tim Kaine

topic: Done, Stuff, Governors

When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number.

- Kinky Friedman

topic: Numbers, Telephones, Firsts, Governors

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?

- Sean Hannity

topic: Country, Greatness, Ignorant, Governors, Pledge Of Allegiance

I'll hire blacks as long as they can do the cotton-pickin' job.

- Evan Mecham

topic: Jobs, Long, Cotton, Job Well Done, Governors

If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

- Elizabeth Warren

topic: Teacher, Firefighter, Enemy, Governors, Walkers

If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed.

- James Oglethorpe

source: James Edward Oglethorpe (1990). “General Oglethorpe's Georgia: 1738-43”

topic: Together, Principles, Slave, Governors

The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.

- Miguel de Cervantes

source: Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition”, p.578, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Home, Should Have, Broken, Governors, Broken Leg

Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'

- Chelsea Clinton

source: "Chelsea Clinton reveals politics, kids, are a possibility" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

topic: Growing Up, Father, One Day, Governors

The rule of God is not tyranny, for it does not partake of a political or governmental character -- it is not a rule of authority. God is not a governor of the universe, for a governor rules over those of a like nature with himself, and exercises a political and judicial power, while God exercises a creative, a preserving, and a determinative power of an altogether different kind. If I am a servant of God, I am under no tyranny; for God does not govern, but supports, sustains, and directs me.

- William Batchelder Greene

source: William Batchelder Greene, Jakob Böhme, Antoine Fabre d'Olivet, Philippe-Joseph-Benjamin Buchez (1849). “Remarks on the science of history: followed by An a priori autobiography”, p.35

topic: God, Character, Exercise, Judicial Power, Governors

Governors have to balance budgets. And they have to make decisions. And they have to do things that sometimes aren't popular. And they also have to bring people together to try to solve problems.

- Jeb Bush

source: "Is the left waging a war against college men?". "The Kelly File" with Megyn Kelly, www.foxnews.com. June 17, 2015.

topic: People, Decision, Balance, Governors

I never thought that Bill Clinton should be the president. When he was running to be the president of the United States, he said on over a hundred occasions, he said the following: He said, 'One of the great accomplishments while I was the governor of Arkansas, was to take my state in education from 50th to 49th.' And I thought, ' you know, Bill, you should keep that a secret.

- Lewis Black

topic: Running, Accomplishment, Secret, Governors, Great Accomplishment

...but let it suffice us to know that it became God, who is the supreme Ruler, Governor and Judge of all that sin should be punished with death in the sinner or his surety; and therefore if God would bring many sons to glory, the Captain of their salvation must undergo sufferings and death, to make satisfaction for them.

- John Owen

topic: Son, Judging, Suffering, Governors, Suffering And Death

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.

- Chris Christie

source: "Veepstakes hits high gear at CPAC" by Juana Summers, www.politico.com. June 8, 2012.

topic: Country, Jobs, America, Governors

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

- James Madison

source: 1822; cited in U.S. Senate, Alleged Assassination Plots (1975).

topic: Education, Wisdom, Knowledge, Knowledge And Ignorance, Knowledge Education

Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.

- J. C. Watts

topic: Oklahoma, Tulsa, States, Governors, Head Coaches

Governor Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.

- George W. Bush

topic: Humor, Political, Political Humor, Governors

I'm not surprised that Governor Dean would oppose [the $87 billion to fund Iraq reconstruction].... I've lost confidence that he has any understanding of the national security responsibilities of a President... [b]ecause I don't believe that he has any understanding of the international role that the United States has to play in the world. I think it's a kind of a pseudo-isolationism that appeals to the base of the caucus voters. I do not believe that particularly in the case of Iraq that Governor Dean has any fundamental understanding of what's at stake here.

- John McCain

topic: Believe, Responsibility, Thinking, Governors, Lost Confidence

The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.

- Nikolai Gogol

topic: Debris, Shows, Governors

I'll get a three-page letter and the last paragraph says 'I know you'll never read this, but here's my number.' I love to call those people because the first thing they say is, 'Governor, I didn't mean everything I said in the letter about you.'

- Dave Heineman

topic: Love, Mean, Numbers, Governors

The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.

- Oscar Wilde

source: 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' (1898) pt. 3, st. 3

topic: Strong, Science, Doctors, Governors, Chaplains

Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.

- Donna Brazile

source: "Millions Insulted by Liberals' Use of Jesus Christ/Pontius Pilate Line". Interview with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 12, 2008.

topic: Jesus, People, Community, Governors, Organizer

But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and intention, serve entirely different roles. Both are needed for our nation’s governance. But children in one set of schools are educated to be governors; children in the other set of schools are trained for being governed. The former are given the imaginative range to mobilize ideas for economic growth; the latter are provided with the discipline to do the narrow tasks the first group will prescribe.

- Jonathan Kozol

source: Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.212, Broadway Books

topic: Children, School, Ideas, Governors

I've never been a planner. I didn't know I was going to run for the State House. I didn't know I was going to run for governor. I don't know what's next, and I love not thinking about it because the doors open at a certain time.

- Nikki Haley

source: Interview With Shivani Vora, india.blogs.nytimes.com. April 4, 2012.

topic: Running, Thinking, Doors, Governors, Planners

It's my job as governor to set a vision.

- Mary Fallin

topic: Jobs, Vision, Governors

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

- Louis Leakey

topic: Senior, Hippie, People, Governors, Civil Servants

As Governor of my country, I  have been an enemy to its enemies;  I have slain the English;  I have mortally opposed the English King;  I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.

- William Wallace

source: Statement at his trial on August 23, 1305. "Lives of Scottish worthies". Book by Patrick Fraser Tytler, p. 279, 1831.

topic: Governors

As both a former governor and a Naval officer I can tell you energy security remains among biofuels' most important benefits.

- Matt Blunt

topic: Important, Benefits, Biofuels, Governors, Energy Security

I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.

- Haley Barbour

source: "Rep. Paul Ryan on Deficit Reduction; Gov. Haley Barbour on 2012 Presidential Politics". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 13, 2011.

topic: Cutting, Government, Years, Governors

I had a truly horrible dream last night ... [Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson and I] were on our way to a TV studio for a debate about his long-time working friendship with the powerful Bush family from Texas and how it might affect the next Bush presidency when The Terminator seizes power in Sacramento and tries to hand over the state's 54 electoral votes by election day in 2004. That is the basic plan behind Schwarzenegger running. He doesn't want to be Governor, he just wants the electoral votes to go to Bush this time.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: "Nightmare in La-la Land". www.espn.com. August 17, 2003.

topic: Running, Dream, Powerful, Governors, Sacramento

When I hear Governor Mitt Romney in his speech talk about how the Republican Party must stand for legitimate conservative values. They don't.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: "Romney Responds To Rush: The Term 'Establishment' Suggests 'There Is Some Wizard Of Oz Somewhere Pulling The Strings'" by Tim Hains, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 6, 2016.

topic: Party, Speech, Conservative, Governors, Conservative Values

I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable.

- James McGreevey

topic: Office, Secret, Vulnerable, Governors, Resigning

My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.

- Jack Markell

topic: Lows, Taxes, Rate, Governors

Ronald Reagan was one of our great foreign policy Presidents. He did not come from the Senate. He did not come from the foreign policy world. He was a governor, but his resolve, his clarity of purpose, his intelligence, his capacity to deal with complex issues and solve tough problems served him extremely well, and if I were elected President, I hope I could rely upon those same qualities.

- Mitt Romney

topic: Rely Upon, Clarity Of Purpose, Issues, Governors, Tough Problems

I don't want to describe either Governor Mitt Romney or the Republicans as stupid, but I will say this - if you look at their platform, the 2012 platform, it looks like it's from another century and maybe even two. It looks like the platform of 1812.

- Antonio Villaraigosa

source: "David Axelrod and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa defend President Obama's economic record". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 02, 2012.

topic: Stupid, Two, Looks, Governors

Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.

- Fred Upton

topic: Obamacare, Giving, President, Governors

There is no one who's gonna be sitting on that stage who has the record of job creation I have. There's one in particular who's created jobs all around the world. While he was the governor of Massachusetts he didn't create many jobs.

- Rick Perry

topic: Jobs, Massachusetts, Sitting, Governors

As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.

- Gavyn Davies

topic: Thinking, Views, Long, Governors, Political View

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.

- Lincoln Chafee

source: Lincoln Chafee (2010). “Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President”, p.9, Macmillan

topic: Rhode Island, Islands, Presidential, Governors

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

- Eleanor Clift

topic: President, Looks, Former, Governors

Let me tell you the story about Massachusetts under Governor Romney. It did fall to 47th out of 50 in jobs creation. Wages went down when they were going up in the rest of the country. He left his successor with debt and a deficit, and manufacturing jobs left that state at twice the rate as the rest of the country.

- Stephanie Cutter

source: "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. June 1, 2012.

topic: Country, Jobs, Fall, Job Creation, Governors

When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was very helpful to us in education, in the environment, with the handling of the BP oil spill.

- Charlie Crist

topic: Oil, Issues, President, Governors, Oil Spill