Governors Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

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

  Nikolai Gogol

  Debris, Shows, Activity

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “The Inspector-General: A Comedy in Five Acts”, p.40, The Floating Press

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• 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

  Love, Mean, Numbers

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• 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

  Strong, Science, Doctors

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

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• 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

  Jesus, People, Community

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

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• 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

  Children, School, Ideas

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

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• 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

  Running, Thinking, Doors

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

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

  Mary Fallin

  Jobs, Vision

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• 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

  Senior, Hippie, People

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• 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

  Country, Kings, Taken

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

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

  Matt Blunt

  Important, Energy, Benefits

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• 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

  Cutting, Yesterday, Government

  "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.

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• 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

  Running, Dream, Powerful

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

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• 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

  Party, Speech, Conservative

  "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.

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

  James McGreevey

  Office, Secret, Vulnerable

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• 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

  Lows, Taxes, Rate

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• 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

  Rely Upon, Clarity Of Purpose, Issues

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• 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

  Stupid, Two, Looks

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

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• 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

  Obamacare, Giving, President

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• 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

  Jobs, Massachusetts, Sitting

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• 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

  Thinking, Views, Long

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

  Lincoln Chafee

  Rhode Island, Islands, Presidential

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

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

  Eleanor Clift

  President, Looks, Former

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• 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

  Country, Jobs, Fall

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

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• 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

  Oil, Issues, President

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