Governor Quotes

Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.
J. C. Watts

State, Head, Position

A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of.
Mitch McConnell

Sleep, Night, Trouble

Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.
Chris Christie

Time, Government, America

I absolutely believe that, come November 2012, I'm going to be governor of New Jersey and not in any other office. But the fact of the matter is, if Gov. Romney, who's going to be our nominee, picked up the phone and called me to talk about this, I love my country enough and I love my party enough to listen.
Chris Christie

Love, Country, Enough

Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when they are two-and-a-half, is absolutely crucial.
Jonathan Kozol

Nothing, Giving, America

I'm governor of New York.
Andrew Cuomo

A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.
Andrew Cuomo

Good, Friend, Force

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

Office, Running

Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president?
Dick Cheney

Real, Why, Between

As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.
Jesse Ventura

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

Government, Mad, Run

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.
Jesse Ventura

Life, Politics, Waiting

A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.
Scott Walker

Time, Wise, Long

I think that Governor Romney needs to talk about the fact that what he tried to do in the state of Massachusetts was him seeing what could be best for his state, but maybe it didn't work out as well.
Allen West

Work, Best, Him

I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income.
Allen West

Off, Lives, Tax

I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.
Jeb Bush

Life, Time, Focus

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.
Jeb Bush

Knowledge, Between, Economic

I miss being governor.
Jeb Bush

I'm saying there is no way that I will do this, because it's really not me. I know my strengths, and governor Romney needs to find someone who wants to run with him. There are many people who will do it very, very well, and I'll support the ticket.
Condoleezza Rice

Someone, Saying, Him

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.
Mike Huckabee

Nature, Story, Banking

We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?
Tom Ford

Fashion, Why, President

You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing his best to instantly cast himself as the big dog in the Republican pack.
Jeff Goodell

Love, Best, Big

During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.
Daniel Boone

Great, Home, Give

Here's a little known fact - Arnold is the first body builder to run for governor since Janet Reno.
David Letterman

Here, Fact, Body

It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said.
David Letterman

Said, Everybody, Race

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Sacrifice, Small, Iraq

Arnold Schwarzenegger's publicist told USA Today that the actor has not ruled out running for governor of California, saying that he will make a decision soon. Reportedly Arnold needs that time to learn how to pronounce 'gubernatorial.'
Jimmy Fallon

Time, Today, Saying

And I think Governor Romney has a shot if the 'R' next to his name doesn't just stand for 'Republican,' it stands for 'reformer.'
Scott Walker

Stand, Next, Republican

You look at Governor Romney's record in the private sector, he helped turn businesses around. Certainly a decade ago he took what would have been an international disaster with the U.S. Olympics, and turned it around for America and made us great again with the Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Scott Walker

Great, Made, America

I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term.
Scott Walker

Love, History, Kids

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