Able Quote by Mary Burke

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 recognize that as governor, my job is to sit on the other side of the table from the public sector unions and negotiate…

— Rob McKenna

Governor is the only office I've ever run for, and I did so in the first place because I felt that there was a…

— Deval Patrick

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When…

— Theresa May

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

— Sonny Perdue

When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.

— Kate Brown

As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had…

— Evan Bayh

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

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

— Jesse Ventura

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

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

It was very constraining, much more than I ever would have thought, to run for governor.

— Christine Gregoire

What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget.

— Wilbur Mills