Governors Quotes - Page 28

• If you want gridlock in Washington,then I'm probably not your guy because I'm running a campaign to say I can fix these things because I did it as governor. I have 32 years of business experience and eight years as governor.

  Jeb Bush

  Running, Eight, Years

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2015.

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• I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here. If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect. I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market. There's an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.

  Alan Greenspan

  Issues, Interesting, Psychology

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• Even in Madison’s day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried to gerrymander Madison himself out of the First Congress. The term was coined during Madison’s Presidency, to mock Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts, who in 1811 approved an election district that was said to look like a salamander.

  Jeffrey Toobin

  Practice, Looks, Massachusetts

  "Drawing the Line". www.newyorker.com. March 6, 2006.

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• I've always told people that to be successful you have to enjoy what you're doing and right now I really enjoy what I'm doing. I'm having too much fun with my life. Why would I want to do something else? Why would I want to run for governor?

  Donald Trump

  Life, Success, Running

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• Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Men, Essence, Names

  Address to Unitarian Ministers, 1890.

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• "It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the power of taking from them the trial by jury in civil cases, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce, the habeas corpus laws, and of yoking them with a standing army. This is a degeneracy in the principles of liberty... which I [would not have expected for at least] four centuries."

  Thomas Jefferson

  Army, Law, Liberty

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• At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.

  Kathleen Blanco

  Responsibility, Levels, Bucks

  Address To A Joint Session of the Louisiana State Legislature, delivered 14 September 2005, Baton Rouge, LA

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• Governor Christie's decision today violates the individual drive of men and women who no longer want to be tormented by unwanted homosexual desires. They are adults and should be free to seek out help for themselves with government interference.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Men, Decision, Desire

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• It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.

  Eliot Spitzer

  New York, Used, Used To Be

  "Spitzer at ‘Happy Ending’ Party". nypost.com. December 16, 2008.

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• The President, and government, will only control the militia when a part of them is in the actual service of the federal government, else, they are independent and not under the command of the president or the government. The states would control the militia, only when called out into the service of the state, and then the governor would be commander in chief where enumerated in the respective state constitution.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Independent, Government, President

  "The Federalist Papers". Book by Alexander Hamilton, essay No. 69, 1787 - 1788.

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• Well, I know I worked for Governor Rockefeller the last time he ran for his fourth term, and I obviously ran against Governor Cuomo the time he ran for his fourth term.

  George Pataki

  Lasts, Term, Wells

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• Though I am flattered that Governor Palin has chosen to cite me as a source of wisdom, what I said had nothing to do with politics. This is yet another example of McCain and Palin distorting the truth, and all the more reason to remember that this campaign is not about gender, it is about which candidate has an agenda that will improve the lives of all Americans, including women. The truth is, if you care about the status of women in our society and in our troubled economy, the best choice by far is Obama-Biden.

  Madeleine Albright

  Choices, Campaigns, Agendas

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• The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each year, the nation's governors call upon their Guard troops to respond to fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.

  Russel Honore

  Military, Fire, Years

  "Gen. Honoré: Sandy recovery is stumbling" by Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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• While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Justice, Champion

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Civil Disobedience and Other Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.

  Ed Gillespie

  People, Littles, States

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

  Mitt Romney

  Action, Sanctity, Preserves

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• First governor in Arkansas history to ever lower taxes.

  Mike Huckabee

  Arkansas, Firsts, Taxes

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• In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations.

  Roy Barnes

  Years, Knowing, Firsts

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• One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the governor - the president - governor - president. Oops. Ex-governor. I went to Bethesda Naval Hospital to give a fellow a Purple Heart, and at the same moment I watched him-get a Purple Heart for action in Iraq - and at that same - right after I gave him the Purple Heart, he was sworn in as a citizen of the United States - a Mexican citizen, now a United States citizen.

  George W. Bush

  Meaningful, Heart, Purple

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor. He's got a great slogan - 'Vote for me, or I'll make 'Kindergarten Cop II

  Craig Kilborn

  Running, Vote, Kindergarten

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• I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Wish

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• There is only one governor, and his name is Gray Davis.

  Gray Davis

  Names, Gray

  "Garamendi, Eu consider running in recall / Schwarzenegger to terminate suspense tonight" by Robert Salladay, Carla Marinucci, James Sterngold, www.sfgate.com. August 6, 2003.

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• Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Character, Men, Illusion

  "The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson" by Daniel J. Boorstin, University of Chicago Press, Ch. 4, (p. 178), 1993.

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• Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell.

  Paul LePage

  Hell, Go To Hell

  "Tone, Temperament At Issue In Maine Gov. Race". "All Things Considered" with Tovia Smith, www.npr.org. October 18, 2010.

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• Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina.

  Nikki Haley

  Years, Parent, South Carolina

  Nikki Haley RNC speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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