Running Quote by Christine Gregoire

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.…

— Ben Chandler

In my eight years as governor, I did everything I could to resist federal control of issues that belong to the states.

— Sonny Perdue

Every governor's got tough choices to make.

— Bob McDonnell

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

— Lajos Kossuth

When I ran for governor in 2016, we shook up the political establishment - then cut more than a billion dollars in spending, balanced…

— Doug Burgum

When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement.…

— J. B. Pritzker

I didn't run for Governor for me; I ran to help the people of West Virginia.

— Jim Justice

As governor I would have made sure that I bargained fairly but firmly, been able to get the changes that were needed to balance…

— Mary Burke

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

— Jill Stein

“Isn't a governor something you put on a state to keep it from moving ahead very fast?”

— Neal Boortz

It's my job as governor to set a vision.

— Mary Fallin

It's hard running as an independent. I wouldn't have won the Senate election if I hadn't been governor. I had credibility. The hard part…

— Angus King