Governors Quotes - Page 26

• If you're white and wealthy, Texas is a great place, however, no Texas governor Republican or Democrat is eager to raise taxes and without that you can't expand access to health care or decrease the cost of higher education.

  Calvin Jillson

  Education, Health, Texas

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• A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Wife, Chance, Telling The Truth

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president who would reduce taxes for his employers, the Southern and Western New Rich, much of whose money came from the defence industries. There is nothing unusual about this arrangement. All recent presidents have had their price-tags.

  Gore Vidal

  Price Tag, Careers, California

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.61, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Ambition, Nominations

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.21

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• Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? The fact is, you ran in '94 and lost. That's why you weren't serving in the Senate with Rick Santorum. The fact is, you had a very bad re-election rating, you dropped out of office, you had been out of state for something like 200 days preparing to run for president. You didn't have this interlude of citizenship while you thought about what you do. You were running for president while you were governor.

  Newt Gingrich

  Running, Office, President

  Newt Gingrich at GOP Primary debate at Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, New Hampshire, www.washingtonpost.com. January 8, 2012.

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• I don't like the fact that we're not creating jobs the way we used to create jobs in Pennsylvania. I lament the fact that we're not setting the table for really robust economic development, here in Pennsylvania, where we can do that. I lament the fact that our schools are being hollowed out. We need a fresh start. I think we need to go in a different direction. I think we need a new governor.

  Tom Wolf

  Jobs, School, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Tom Wolf from Sep 23, 2014

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• One thing that has become clear over the last several days is that we no longer have 135 choices to make. It's really one choice likely to emerge from question number two, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and that leaves the voters with a clear choice. They can retain Gray Davis as governor, or they can elect Arnold Schwarzenegger and his crew from Pete Wilson to run the governor's office.

  Gray Davis

  Running, Two, Numbers

  "Should I stay or should I withdraw?" by John Mercurio, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2003.

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• I do not make decisions [as governor] based on what have I learned through my Bible studies, what have I learned in my religious classes in school. I'm a big believer in separation of church and state, and I think that's what . . . the law is.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Religious, School, Thinking

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• Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

  Birch Bayh

  Ideologues, Wells, Knows

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• More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Following Instructions, People

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• We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

  John Engler

  Branches, Executive Branch, Amendments

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• I've gone from being one of the youngest governors to now the longest consecutive serving governor in the country.

  John Engler

  Country, Gone, Consecutive

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• I've made more cuts than any governor has ever made.

  Jim Doyle

  Cutting, Made

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• The Democrats' ads convince me that Governor Romney can't sing, but his record convinces me he knows how to lead, and I think you know which skill we need more.

  Artur Davis

  Thinking, Skills, Needs

  Speech At 2012 Republican Convention, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Over the years, I've had a lot of different jobs - newspaper boy, dish washer, naval flight officer, Amtrak board member, Governor and chairman of the National Governors Association - just to name a few. But my most cherished job - and frankly my most important job for that matter - is being a father.

  Thomas Carper

  Jobs, Father, Boys

  "Showing a Father’s Love by Protecting Our Children’s Health" by Tom Carper, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• I am running for Governor of the great state of Ohio and welcome your support.

  Ken Blackwell

  Running, Ohio, Support

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• As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.

  Evan Bayh

  Cutting, Eight, Indiana

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• I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

  Ronald Reagan

  Morning, Jobs, Office

  Ronald Reagan (1990). “An American Life”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it.

  Luis Fortuno

  Kids, Wife, Territory

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• All civil states, with their officers of justice, in their respective constitutions and administrations, are proved essentially civil, and therefore not judges, governors, or defenders of the spiritual, or Christian, state and worship.

  Roger Williams

  Christian, Spiritual, Civilization

  Roger DAVIS, Roger Williams (2009). “On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger Williams”, p.86, Harvard University Press

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• Faith, then, generically, is confidence in a personal being. Specifically, religious faith is confidence in God, in every respect and office in which He reveals Himself. As that love of which God is the object is religious love, so that confidence in Him as a Father, a Moral Governor, a Redeemer, a Sanctifier, in all the modes of His manifestation, by which we believe whatever He says because He says it, and commit ourselves and all our interests cheerfully and entirely into His hands, is religious faith.

  Mark Hopkins

  Religious, Father, Believe

  MARK HOPKINS (1862). “BACCALAUREATE SERMONS, AND OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES”, p.18

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• Illinois is the only state where the present governor rides around in a car whose license plate was made by a previous governor.

  David Letterman

  Illinois, Car, States

  "David Letterman's political guests: The jokes were on them" by Diana D'Abruzzo, Slide 12, www.politico.com. May 20, 2015.

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• Now how about this, ladies and gentlemen? The Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, has announced she is stepping down. She will no longer be the Governor of Alaska. First thing, she woke up and went out on her porch and waved goodbye to Russia.

  David Letterman

  Goodbye, Alaska, Russia

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• The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.

  William J. Clinton

  Trying, Done, Conservative

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• I had been secretary of state for eight years, attorney general for four years, lieutenant governor for four years, and governor for four years - I had all these friends around the country - so I thought I could gin up a campaign not for me but against George W. Bush, against his war, against his economic policies, and against his education policies.

  Don Siegelman

  Country, War, Eight

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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