Governors Quotes - Page 4

• I am running for governor of Kentucky as the people's advocate.

  Sonny Landham

  Running, Kentucky, People

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• I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.

  Mike Johanns

  Nebraska, States

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• The voters reward good performance. So, I'm going to go out and focus, if I become the governor, to do the very best job I can as governor. The rest of it will take care of itself.

  Dave Heineman

  Jobs, Best Job, Focus

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• Jonathan is one of the most corrupt Nigerians I ever investigated while at EFCC & his level of corruption even as deputy governor is just disturbing. PDP is just a disaster and a total failure. Change is the only panacea.

  Nuhu Ribadu

  Levels, Corruption, Disaster

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• Governor Tinubu’s criminal case is of international dimension.

  Nuhu Ribadu

  Criminals, Dimensions, Cases

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• If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience.

  Thomas Jefferson

  School, Government, Parent

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.543

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• It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.

  Charles Edison

  Men, Promise, Groups

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• If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.

  Frank Chodorov

  Attitude, Pride, Reason

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• We need to support Mary Burke for Governor!

  Michelle Obama

  Support, Needs, Mary

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• In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California.

  James Garner

  California, Opinion, Schwarzenegger

  James Garner, Jon Winokur, Julie Andrews (2012). “The Garner Files: A Memoir”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president.

  James Garner

  President, Qualified

  James Garner, Jon Winokur, Julie Andrews (2012). “The Garner Files: A Memoir”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• When I think about that kind of spirit, I think about my mother, who is standing here with me tonight. My mother is the embodiment of what it means to have a Texas spirit, because she wanted nothing more than for her children to have a better life than she had, to have an education beyond the ninth-grade education that she had, to live happier lives, more successful ones than she had been able to live. And you know what? She raised the daughter who ran for governor.

  Wendy Davis

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  "Wendy Davis Concedes Race for Texas Governor With Heartfelt Speech" by Jill Filipovic, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 5, 2014.

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• If it turns out that Barry Bonds used steroids to bulk up and add muscle mass, he could get four to eight years as governor of California

  Argus Hamilton

  Eight, Years, California

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• Senator Graham would have been very difficult to beat. He'd been governor for two terms. He's a U.S. Senator. He has a lot of friends; he's done a lot of favors to help a lot of people in Florida. So the fact that he's not running really does change the whole landscape in Florida.

  Allen Boyd

  Change, Running, Florida

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• There is no governor anywhere. You are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. If anybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled - by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  People, Would Be, Alive

  "The Trick Top Hat". Book by Robert Anton Wilson within the Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy, 1979.

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• So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.

  Tony Abbott

  Government, Excuse, Week

  Tony Abbott's victory speech, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2013.

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• In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Running, Rude, Mates

  Republican National Convention Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• I have never been afraid to tackle tough or controversial issues, but I have always done it with the intent to do what I was elected to do, and that is represent the interests of my constituents, the working people of Hawaii. I feel that we are facing some of the most difficult issues in recent history with regard to food security, a widening income gap, and the rapidly increasing rise of the cost of living in our State. I know that the office of Lieutenant Governor can do more to address these issues.

  Clayton Hee

  Cost Of Living, Issues, People

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• Texas governor Rick Perry said God is calling on him to run for President. But Michele Bachmann said that God is calling on her to run for President. You know, if God is that indecisive, he's probably for Mitt Romney!

  Jay Leno

  Running, Texas, President

  "Timothy Geithner". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. July 24, 2011.

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• We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, President, Actors

  Interview with Peter Halley, www.indexmagazine.com. 2004.

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• You mention the Navy, for example, and the fact that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

  Barack Obama

  Horse, Navy, Example

  "Scientifically speaking, who's funnier: Democrats or Republicans?" by Joel Warner and Peter McGraw, www.wired.com. October 23, 2012.

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• So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Pain, Cutting, Citizens

  "American Morning" with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2003.

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• I think things are more confused now than in several years, and I think the reason is that the governor is vacillating on it. He's all for it, but he's not doing anything about it. I am certain that his behavior is at the center of the Twins' frustration.

  Steven Schier

  Confused, Frustration, Thinking

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• Governor Ford is sworn to support the Constitution of the United States and also of this State Illinois, and these constitutions guarantee religious as well as civil liberty to all religious societies whatever.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Religious, Freedom, America

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• Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.

  Gore Vidal

  Order, Political, Drug

  Gore Vidal (2002). “Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated, Causes of Conflict in the Last Empire”, p.54, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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