Governors Quotes - Page 5

Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow bodybuilders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Men, Years, California

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Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It's all hard to accept at times, and change can often be a little scary. But if there's one fact that I've learned from raising a family, from running several businesses, from serving in Congress and now as Governor, it's that nothing has ever grown without changing.

Bob Riley

Change, Running, Different Ideas

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Christine Todd Whitman had to resign as the head of the EPA. You know, when the governor of New Jersey decides the environment is hopeless, you gotta really think that one through.

Greg Giraldo

Thinking, Epa, Jersey

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Former Governor [Jeb] Bush calling for an end all together of the Supplemental Nutrition Program, or what some people call food stamps program, as part of an overhaul.

Melissa Harris-Perry

People, Together, Calling

Source: www.msnbc.com

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I have the greatest appreciation for Governor [Sarah] Palin and her family. There's great joy to know them.

John McCain

Appreciation, Joy, Palin

Source: www.msnbc.com

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Sarah Palin is an attractive candidate, but based on her background, she only was governor for what, two years. I don`t think she passed that test.

Dick Cheney

Thinking, Years, Two

"The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. January 19, 2016.

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I don't go around every other day calling for governors to resign. I don't think I ever have.

Bernie Sanders

Thinking, Calling

Source: www.msnbc.com

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I'm not going to get establishment support. I'm not going to get the support of the governors and the senators, with few exceptions, and many of the major organizations.

Bernie Sanders

Organization, Support, Establishment

Source: www.msnbc.com

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The uncritically admiring supporters and friends of the prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu], in whose ranks I certainly don't include David [Brooks], but include Charles Krauthammer, the columnist, and Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, insist on comparing him to the incomparable leader of the British forces in country in part of - during World War II.

Mark Shields

Country, War, Leader

Source: www.pbs.org

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There are kind of four people up at the top, [Donald] Trump,[Marco] Rubio,[Ted] Cruz,[Ben] Carson, and then there's me and about three governors. I'm perfectly happy with that position right now, honestly, because when I started this race, I was 17 out of 16. The pollsters didn't even ask my name, because so few people knew me.

Carly Fiorina

Race, Names, People

"Fiorina: Trump is a Clinton Christmas gift, I'm the lump of coal; US doing enough to defeat ISIS?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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It's perfectly legal in this country to change your mind. But when you're a governor, you have to admit it. You can't hide behind parliamentary tricks. That's the difference, and that's the kind of leader we need in the White House. Stop the Washington bull and let's get things done.

Chris Christie

Country, White, Differences

Chris Christie at the 7th GOP debate in Des Moines, Iowa, www.washingtonpost.com. January 28, 2016.

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As governor I would have made sure that I bargained fairly but firmly, been able to get the changes that were needed to balance the budget, but done that through collective bargaining and making sure that our public employees had a voice at the table.

Mary Burke

Voice, Balance, Done

Source: www.progressive.org

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A big part of the Republican 2016 race is now basically a bunch of establishment Republicans going after each other. Jeb Bush going after Marco Rubio, and the governors, Chris Christie going after Marco Rubio. Rubio firing back, John Kasich going after Jeb Bush.

Melissa Harris-Perry

Race, Republican, Bigs

Source: www.msnbc.com

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I want to emphasis again, Governor (Thomas) Kean and Congressman (Lee) Hamilton pointed out that congressional oversight also was a major contributor to our failures prior to 9/11 and that has to be fixed as well.

John McCain

Want, Hamilton, Fixed

"Senate bill would implement 9/11 panel proposals" by Ted Barrett, www.cnn.com. September 8, 2004.

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You might be a redneck if you entire family has ever sat around waiting for a call from the governor to spare a loved one.

Jeff Foxworthy

Redneck, Waiting, Might

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Governor Dean has no policy on Iraq evidently, except 'no.' 'No' is not a policy.

John F. Kerry

Iraq, Dean, Policy

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Lieutenant Governor Paterson - blind, black guy - gets sworn in. First thing he says is, 'By the way, cheated on my wife. Let's just get that out in the open right now.' He didn't need to admit that. He's blind. Could have said it was an accident.

Greg Fitzsimmons

Wife, Guy, Black

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I'm a complete libertarian. I think it's very, very dangerous. I really mean that. I think the smoking ban is a tip of an iceberg of society - the leaders of society telling us how to be. I think it's not their business. It's an attitude where the governors think, 'We know what's best for people, and they're so stupid that they would only not do it if we ban it.'

Jeremy Irons

Attitude, Stupid, Mean

"Oscar-Winner Jeremy Irons Slams Bloomberg's 'Nanny State'", www.realclearpolitics.com. April 03, 2013.

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It's the most important decision I've had to make since 1978 when I decided to get abikini wax. [On his running for California Governor]

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Running, California, Decision

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With Halloween coming this weekend, they say not one person in the country is planning to dress up as Governor Sarah Palin. You know why? ... The costume costs $150,000.

Jay Leno

Country, Halloween, Weekend

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You know, Sarah Palin is the Governor of Alaska, you know that. And she's a lifelong member of the National Rifle Association. So great, is what I'm thinking, another vice president that shoots a drinking buddy; just get ready.

David Letterman

Drinking, Thinking, Alaska

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Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist. It's too bad. Thus ends a month of celebrating the 400-year progression of our nation's British culture from wood to steel to graphite shafts.

Argus Hamilton

Virginia, Years, Sound

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While it is important to trash the governor, it should be done in the context of regret, sadness and balance.

Frank Luntz

Regret, Sadness, Balance

"California Democrats: A Rock or a Hard Place?" by Jim Angle, www.foxnews.com. July 21, 2003.

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And Eleanor's husband was the man who did the interning. And I think they - Governor Warren, who was later to become such an impassioned Chief Justice on all sorts of human rights issues, was very big in the internment process. And I think that we simply sometimes tend not to understand or remember how people felt.

William A. Rusher

Husband, Thinking, Men

Source: www.pbs.org

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I'm very proud and grateful to have the support of so many elected Vermonters and former officials. Two former governors, the current governor, the current other senator. I really appreciate that.And I think it's because they've worked with me, they've seen what I do. They know what kind of a colleague I am. They want me as their partner in the White House. And that's exactly what I will do.

Hillary Clinton

Grateful, Thinking, Two

"Sanders-Clinton debate transcript: Annotating what they say". www.washingtonpost.com. February 4, 2016.

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