Governor Quotes
420 Governor quotes by 261 unique authors
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I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of…
— Meg Whitman
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Although the governor strongly disagrees with the court substituting its judgment for the constitutional process of the elected branches or a vote of the people,…
— Chris Christie
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They've been very helpful. They allow voters to cut through the din and clutter of the $100-million smear campaign the unions have been waging against…
— Todd Harris
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Senator Allen has long been a leader on competitiveness issues in the Senate and as governor of Virginia. His announcement of the Competitiveness Caucus comes…
— John Engler
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The President, and government, will only control the militia when a part of them is in the actual service of the federal government, else, they…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best…
— Sophocles
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. This sentence was much used in the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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There will be that zip-a-dee-doo-dah after the nominee is chosen. I guarantee there will be that enthusiasm. But to be brutally honest, with all due…
— Sarah Palin
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Governor Romney is a good debater.
— Jim Talent
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I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor,…
— Strom Thurmond
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As your governor, you’re going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page, saying ‘Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell.’
— Paul LePage
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Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.
— Elizabeth Warren
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As governor, I came to believe that the death penalty would be a just punishment for certain, especially heinous crimes, such as the murder of…
— Howard Dean
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It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.
— Eliot Spitzer
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Governor Christie's decision today violates the individual drive of men and women who no longer want to be tormented by unwanted homosexual desires. They are…
— Maggie Gallagher
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Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn’t understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn’t understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about…
— Tom Morello
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At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here,…
— Kathleen Blanco
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Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He…
— Benjamin Tucker
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He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is…
— Benjamin Tucker
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I don't know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A lot of media people…
— George Ryan
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Even in Madison's day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried…
— Jeffrey Toobin
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I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the…
— Alan Greenspan
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Though I am flattered that Governor Palin has chosen to cite me as a source of wisdom, what I said had nothing to do with…
— Madeleine Albright
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I was surprised when shortly after New Year's Day of 1983, the Governor of Texas summoned me to his office, because I hadn't been aware…
— James A. Michener
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When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frankly, I didn't think I was ready. I…
— Ben Chandler
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