Governors Quotes

• If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • Presidents
  • Governors
  • Senators

• It's 10 years overdue. It's amazing how TV forced the game's governors to do it.

  

  Gene Scott
  • Amazing
  • TV
  • Forced

• He's got a strong vision and a strong will of what he wants to do. . . . It's the stuff of which governors are made to look good or bad.

  

  Larry Miller
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Strong

• Gary Johnson was a strong governor.

  

  William Weld
  • Strong
  • Johnson
  • Gary

• If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.

  

  Plato
  • Army
  • Governors
  • Dishonour

• We want to make sure every member of the board of governors is aware of the importance of the decisions that are going to be taken at the extraordinary meeting.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Decisions
  • Meeting
  • Member

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

  

  Tom Ridge
  • Imagine
  • I Think
  • Talanted

• In fact, James Meredith who was once the icon of the civil rights movement. He supported me for governor!

  

  David Duke
  • Movement
  • Icons
  • Governors

• Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet.

  

  Edward Bernays
  • Identity
  • Members
  • Governors

• The only thing I can think to do is if the Democratic Party can do what the Republicans have done, which is go in there and take control of these legislatures and governors' areas.

  

  Collin Peterson
  • Republicans
  • Democratic Party
  • Governors

• Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Science
  • Secret
  • Duty

• I put in work for my neighborhood. Hundreds of bills, measures, budget items, and hearings. I always tried to make it a point to stay late, to always run the longest hearings, to carry nearly the most bills. The tragedy was that of the 18 years I was in Sacramento, 16 years were under Republican governors.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Work
  • Budget
  • Neighborhood

• I'm running for governor; I'm not running for a legislative office.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Running
  • Office
  • Romance

• But I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the profits of it. It does not follow, because you are general of an army, that you are to take all the treasure, or land, it wins; (if it fight for treasure or land); neither, because you are king of a nation, that you are to consume all the profits of the nation's work.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Work
  • King
  • Army

• People ask me, "What are you going to do to develop jobs in your state?" Well, that's not my job as a US senator to bring industry to the state. That's the lieutenant governor's job, that's your state senators' and assemblymen's job. That's your secretary of state's job, to make a climate in the state that says, 'Y'all come.'

  

  Sharron Angle
  • Jobs
  • Wells
  • States

• The Department of Defense set this trip up for the purpose of making these governors aware of the global war on terror. It's important for the governors to be on the ground and visit with the troops.

  

  Alice Stewart
  • Terror
  • Trip
  • Governors

• The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

  

  Bill Kovach
  • Press
  • Governors

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

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Necessity
  • Governors
  • Insurrection

• Beautiful, luscious and flowing. Atop the governor's head.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Beautiful
  • Flowing
  • Luscious

• Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues.

  

  Ernie Fletcher
  • Education
  • Issues
  • Fellow

• You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.

  

  Michael Reagan
  • Proud
  • President
  • Governors

• Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

  

  Mercedes McCambridge
  • Persons
  • Concern
  • Governors