Governor Quotes

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

Dad, Father, Him

If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.
Ed Gillespie

Big, Sense, State

Protests are fine. But in South Carolina we believe in the rule of law, and the people of this state should never doubt that as governor, I will enforce it.
Nikki Haley

Doubt, Law, State

I've never been a planner. I didn't know I was going to run for the State House. I didn't know I was going to run for governor. I don't know what's next, and I love not thinking about it because the doors open at a certain time.
Nikki Haley

Love, Time, Thinking

Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina.
Nikki Haley

Parents, Before, After

I don't want to describe either Governor Mitt Romney or the Republicans as stupid, but I will say this - if you look at their platform, the 2012 platform, it looks like it's from another century and maybe even two. It looks like the platform of 1812.
Antonio Villaraigosa

Stupid, Two, Another

These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information.
Charles Sturt

Writing, Days, Three

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
Lajos Kossuth

Ambition, Gratify, Nomination

Growing up I never imagined a little girl from a border town could one day become a governor. But this is America. In America algo es possible.
Susana Martinez

Girl, America, Become

As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask 'Are you Susana?' and they run up and give me a hug.
Susana Martinez

History, Courage, Give

Growing up, I never imagined a girl from a border town could one day become a governor.
Susana Martinez

Girl, Become, Growing

The party has to be rebuilt on all levels. In a way, maybe it's to be expected when you've had a governor in office for 12 years and he and his people are stepping down.
Peter King

Down, Office, Maybe

The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.'
Craig Kilborn

Political, Big, Four

I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.
Mike Johanns

State, Nebraska, Ended

The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.
Bob McDonnell

Elected, Duties, Citizens

The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times.
Bob McDonnell

Times, Chief, Executive

There is no question that the minority party always makes a sport of going after the governor.
Bob McDonnell

After, Makes, Question

Every governor's got tough choices to make.
Bob McDonnell

I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.
Claire McCaskill

Time, Good, Woman

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
Sally Kirkland

Education, High, Bring

The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform, mandates and all, as a way to inoculate against Democratic charges that Republicans didn't care about people who lacked health insurance.
Ari Fleischer

Health, Care, Reason

The Democrats' ads convince me that Governor Romney can't sing, but his record convinces me he knows how to lead, and I think you know which skill we need more.
Artur Davis

Knows, Sing, Lead

As governor, I don't want my fair share. I want more than my fair share.
Terry McAuliffe

God calls us to care for our fellow man, especially the neediest. I feel that call to lift up the less fortunate; the call to improve our communities and our state. It drives me to serve Louisiana as governor.
Kathleen Blanco

God, Care, Less

Governor Scott Walker didn't know who he was messing with when he picked a fight with the hard-working union folks of Wisconsin. He must have forgotten that Wisconsin is the Badger State. And badgers are scrappy little creatures. We may look cute, warm and fuzzy, but we have a fighting spirit.
Gwen Moore

Fight, May, Fighting

In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations.
Roy Barnes

Problems, Year, Knowing

I am State Senator Russell Pearce, the author of SB1070, which was signed by Governor Jan Brewer. Fear mongering and misinformation is the tool of the Left against this common sense legislation.
Russell Pearce

Fear, Sense, Against

The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt.
Mary Harris Jones

History, Successful, Character

Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?
Jane D. Hull

End, America, Else

When Governor Romney was out here, I told him, I said, 'we are following the formula of streamlining regulations, being job creating friendly, balancing budgets, cutting taxes, and, you know, using common sense. And if you get to be president, we are going to do more of that.'
John Kasich

Job, Friendly, Him

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