Governors Quotes · Page 5

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

— Ed Gillespie

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

— Frank Luntz

In 1996, a Republican governor in South Carolina tried to take the flag down. He was voted out.

— Sean Hannity

I've gone from being one of the youngest governors to now the longest consecutive serving governor in the country.

— John Engler

Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General'.

— Gough Whitlam

Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?

— Walt Disney

Governor Romney has been successful. I think, that's what we want in a President of the United States.

— Chris Christie

Governor Tinubu’s criminal case is of international dimension.

— Nuhu Ribadu

I haven't been in Washington over the last - ever. I'm not part of Washington. I got to serve as governor of…

— Jeb Bush

There's a difference between what I would like to have been and what I would have been. I always fantasized about being…

— Mary Beard

The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are…

— Slavoj Žižek

When governors such as John Engler, Mike Huckabee, and Mike Pence were driving the conversation on voluntary high standards driven by local…

— Betsy DeVos

I am going to be using Ronald Reagan's Bible [during swearing-in]. But I'm also going to be using one of our personal…

— Mike Pence

I am humbled and grateful for the four years the people of the state of Nevada have given me as governor and…

— Jim Gibbons

Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in…

— Jonathan Mayhew

Governors have to balance budgets. And they have to make decisions. And they have to do things that sometimes aren't popular. And…

— Jeb Bush

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin pardoned a turkey, though she said she was amazed to find out that, besides being a bird, Turkey…

— Jay Leno

The first time I ran for office in 2002, running for governor in Massachusetts against Mitt Romney, we actually worked with a…

— Jill Stein

The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds…

— Russel Honore

You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have…

— Barack Obama

As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the…

— Gavyn Davies

[After her 18-day disappearance in 1974:] I love my husband very, very much, but he didn't ask me when he ran for…

— Angela Alioto

I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the…

— Wendy Davis

Fast food workers are all the governor has power to enact. Your state legislature is held hostage by the same nitwits that…

— Nick Hanauer

Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done.

— Mike Turzai

Governor Romney supported the bailout of Wall Street and decided not to support the bailout of Detroit.

— Rick Santorum

The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.

— Benjamin Franklin

I think Senator Rubio is a very talented young man. But you can well imagine that I am kind of partial to…

— Tom Ridge

All I can tell you is when the governor calls, I answer his phone.

— George W. Bush

The governor has a role in terms of declaring a state of emergency.

— Bob Buckhorn

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

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nations Governors highest priority.

— Mel Carnahan

Big news from last night's Republican debate, you guys. It turns out George Bush was actually the smart Texas governor.

— Jimmy Fallon

She had breast cancer. No one said she shouldn't run for governor.

— Jodi Rell

Economic growth is the most important initiative every governor faces.

— Dave Heineman

Unfortunately, Governor Bush is a Pat Robertson Republican who will lose to Al Gore.

— John McCain

I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus-group tested, blow-dried candidate or governor.

— Chris Christie

As governor, Im spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

— Jack Markell

I'm running for Governor, and this Honey Badger is ready to fight.

— Scott Gessler

The present combination of corporate or commercial control theoretically answerable to politically appointed Boards of Governors is not in any sense a…

— Tony Benn