Governors Quotes · Page 2

I'm chairman of the Republican Governors Association.

— Bob McDonnell

I believe in Governor Romney. I believe in him as a leader.

— Chris Christie

I was a Democratic governor with two Republican houses.

— Tim Kaine

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

— George Bernard Shaw

I don’t want to be a lonely governor.

— Jim Gibbons

Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

— Barack Obama

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

— Eliot Spitzer

Republican governors trying to suppress the vote.

— Katrina vanden Heuvel

If you really want to introduce corruption into legal marijuana, make it an all cash business.

— John Hickenlooper

We have 31 Republican governors in this country. We have roughly the same number of Republican legislatures.

— Steve Inskeep

We are not perfect. None of us is. I apologize for that flaw. I thank the governor for giving me a job…

— Zulima Farber

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

— John McCain

I want to be governor [of Texas] because I need the closet space.

— Kinky Friedman

They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning.

— Charles Barkley

Governor Romney may be running for CEO, I'm running for President

— Newt Gingrich

Larry Flynt, running for governor of California. His goal - change our state bird to the spread eagle.

— Craig Kilborn

Every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as the governor, I came down on the side…

— Mitt Romney

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into…

— Thomas Carlyle

Now how about this, ladies and gentlemen? The Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, has announced she is stepping down. She will no…

— David Letterman

I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the…

— Carolina Maria de Jesus

In the eight years before I became governor, there was zero net private sector job growth in New Jersey. Zero. For eight…

— Chris Christie

General Otis is proclaimed American Military Governor of the Philippines and I protest a thousand times and with all the force in…

— Emilio Aguinaldo

This is one where you can just kind of go to the tape on it. But Governor [Mike] Pence said inarguably Vladimir…

— Tim Kaine

Well, I don't think so, because the president and members of Congress and governors have the same constituents. It's the American people…

— James Douglas

When you're drug kingpin - you're a mayor. You are a governor. But of a different society. You get to do what…

— Rick Ross

Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead…

— Fred Upton

Yes, (Bush is a) racist. We all knew that but the world is only finding it out now. As Texas's governor, Bush…

— Danny Glover

I am confident that Assad's days are numbered. But what we can't do is to simply suggest that, as Governor Romney at…

— Barack Obama

But I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the…

— John Ruskin

One thing was very clear and I made it always very clear at the beginning when I got into the governorship, and…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and…

— Francois-Noel Babeuf

Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist. It's too bad. Thus ends…

— Argus Hamilton

I went away to this summer program after my junior year of high school. They used to have this thing called the…

— Zachary Quinto

It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that…

— Elliott Abrams

Faith, then, generically, is confidence in a personal being. Specifically, religious faith is confidence in God, in every respect and office in…

— Mark Hopkins

I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you…

— Alan Greenspan

Foreign news is considered an expletive. Thoughtfully written analysis is out, 'live pops' are in. 'Action Jackson' is the cry. Hire lookers,…

— Dan Rather

We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want you to pledge to yourselves in this convention to stand as one solid army against the foes of human labor.…

— Mother Jones

But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and…

— Jonathan Kozol