Governor Quotes - page 11

I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term. (Scott Walker)
And I think Governor Romney has a shot if the 'R' next to his name doesn't just stand for 'Republican,' it stands for 'reformer. View quote
Scott Walker
My sense is, as governor I've gotten a lot of stuff done. View quote
Tim Kaine
I'm not going to run for Senate and I'm not going to run for Governor. I'd like to put those rumors to rest. View quote
Timothy Griffin
I've had the school of hard knocks, and I've worked my way up to be the governor of this great state of Connecticut. View quote
William O'Neill
You're feeling the responsibility for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on your shoulder in a way that I couldn't feel as lieutenant governor. View quote
William Scranton
The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe. View quote
Wellington Mara
I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas. View quote
Wendy Davis
Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. View quote
Wendy Davis
I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that with the right leadership in government, where you start has nothing to do with how far you go. View quote
Wendy Davis
I haven't pursued it as a senator because I know it's like spitting in the wind. But I still believe it's the right thing. And if I were governor and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that. (Wendy Davis)
As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate. View quote
John McCain
The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt. View quote
Mary Harris Jones
In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California. View quote
James Garner
Mitt Romney talks a lot about all the things he's fixed. I can tell you that Massachusetts wasn't one of them. He's a fine fellow and a great salesman, but as governor he was more interested in having the job than doing it. View quote
Deval Patrick
You tell your Governor, your attorney general and all the bigoted pigs outside that if one person on Rancho Rajneesh is harmed I will have 15 of their heads, and I mean it. You have given me no choice. Even though I am a non violent person I will do that. View quote
Ma Anand Sheela
In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement. View quote
Eliot Spitzer
...our owner the Duke of York had been a secret catholic all along. People reckoned King Charles II might be a secret Catholic too, but he denied it. The Duke of York didn't hide it though... he even sent a Catholic governor to New York. View quote
Charles II of England
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active the governor must be more energetic than the governed. View quote
Marquis de Sade
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. View quote
Donna Brazile
Sarah Palin, who with 17 months remaining in her single term as Alaska's governor quit the only serious office she has ever held, is obsessively discussed as a possible candidate in 2012. Why? She is not going to be president and will not be the Republican nominee unless the party wants to lose at least 44 states. (George Will)
In a racially diverse society, it makes sense to phase out state sanction for the battle flag - as South Carolina governor Nikki Haley advocated yesterday, in calling on the state legislature to vote for the removal of the battle flag that has been flying over the grounds of the state capitol... View quote
Victor Davis Hanson
I look forward to an honest debate with Governor Palin on the issues, in the unlikely event that she ever learns anything about them. View quote
Alan Grayson
Lord Dufferin (Governor General) – "as pure as crystal, and as true as steel, with lots of common sense.”. View quote
Alexander Mackenzie
To infer the existence of an intelligent cause from the teeming evidences of surrounding design, to rise to the conception of a moral Governor of the world, from the study of the constitution and the moral provisions of our own nature. View quote
George Boole