Governors Quotes · Page 2

Our supreme governors, the mob.

— Horace Walpole

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

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

— Mitt Romney

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

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

— John McCain

My state, Scott Walker, our governors, reformed Medicaid so it actually works, so that the doctors will take the program.

— Paul Ryan

Governors should be defined not just by what they do and say, but who they surround themselves with.

— Scott Walker

I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that.

— Anonymous

I have often said there are few responsibilities more important than governors making judicial appointments.

— Phil Scott

“All I can say is that if it helps to have friends, it helps even more to have friends who are governors!”

— David Sedaris

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

— Thomas Carlyle

One of the candidates running for governor is a 100-year-old woman. Yeah, the 100-year-old says she'd like to recall Governor Gray Davis,…

— Conan O'Brien

When it appears as though the governors of the Federal Reserve believe that the end of the rate increases is near, that's…

— Hugh S. Johnson

If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not…

— Frank Chodorov

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by…

— Charles Caleb Colton

You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into…

— Laura Bush

As governor of Ohio, I have an obligation to keep the 11.5 million people in Ohio safe. And we have been very…

— Chris Christie

I found a 1992 New York Times article:Bill Clinton playing golf at a club that he played at all of his adult…

— Sean Hannity

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

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have a difference with Senator [Bernie] Sanders, who promises free college, which, if you look at the fine print, depends really…

— Hillary Clinton

The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors…

— Denis Diderot

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

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

— Fred Upton

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

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

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

— Alan Greenspan

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

“Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue;…

— Sarah Palin

If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their…

— Plato