Governors Quotes - Page 8

• Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.

  Elizabeth Warren

  People, Guy, Corporations

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• The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Struggle, Mean, Political

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.90, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• As governor, I came to believe that the death penalty would be a just punishment for certain, especially heinous crimes, such as the murder of a child or the murder of a police officer. The events of September 11 convinced me that terrorists also deserve the ultimate punishment.

  Howard Dean

  Children, Believe, Punishment

  "The Flip-Flops of Howard Dean: What he said then. What he says now. What happened" by William Saletan and Avi Zenilman, www.slate.com. September 11, 2003.

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

  Mike Johanns

  Nebraska, States

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• The voters reward good performance. So, I'm going to go out and focus, if I become the governor, to do the very best job I can as governor. The rest of it will take care of itself.

  Dave Heineman

  Jobs, Best Job, Focus

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• Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn’t understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn’t understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.

  Tom Morello

  Clueless, Band, Machines

  "Tom Morello: 'Paul Ryan Is the Embodiment of the Machine Our Music Rages Against'" by Tom Morello, www.rollingstone.com. August 16, 2012.

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• She had breast cancer. No one said she shouldn't run for governor.

  Jodi Rell

  Inspirational, Running, Cancer

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• The legislature are a little more difficult to educate than the governor is.

  Judy Martz

  Education, Littles, Legislature

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• He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man ... or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Men, Democracy, Invasion

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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• I don't know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A lot of media people will be looking for a case that might make Texas Governor George Bush think twice about what he's doing.

  George Ryan

  Thinking, Texas, Media

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• Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wise, Home, Learning

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• I was surprised when shortly after New Year's Day of 1983, the Governor of Texas summoned me to his office, because I hadn't been aware that he knew I was in town.

  James A. Michener

  New Year, Texas, Years

  James A. Michener (2014). “Texas: A Novel”, p.25, Dial Press

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• 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. I wasn't comfortable that I was prepared to do the job.

  Ben Chandler

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

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• As governor, Im spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

  Jack Markell

  Jobs, School, Creating

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• Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves thus abused and oppressed, they must be stupid not to complain

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Stupid, People, Complaining

  Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.39

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• I made more decisions in a half-day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate... it's too slow for me.

  Chuck Robb

  Decision, Half, Week

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• The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter...we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.

  James Jeans

  Reality, Jeans, Mind

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (2017). “The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]”, p.125, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.

  Al Sharpton

  Iowa, Dean, Wanted

  Al Sharptona at Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, www.foxnews.com. January 23, 2004.

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• Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General'.

  Gough Whitlam

  Queens, May, Wells

  1975 On the Governor-General Sir John Kerr's action in dissolving the Australian Parliament,11 Nov. Whit l am lost the subsequent election.

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• Crime is based upon need, making money.  People sell drugs to make money.  But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell drugs and if there's no money you can't sell drugs even if you wanted to.  There'd be no such thing as gambling, prostitution, or selling out, or paying off a senator or a governor.  There are no senators, there are no governors so you can't pay them off.  If you take away the basis or the condition that generate abhorrent behavior, you don't have abhorrent behavior.

  Jacque Fresco

  Money, Caring, Gambling

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• Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later

  Michael Medved

  Pain, Winning, California

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• If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.

  Romeo LeBlanc

  Knowing, Littles, Extraordinary

  Romeo LeBlanc's Installation Speech, February 8, 1995.

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• Let me tell you, it’s a lot easier to raise money for a governor. They have all kinds of business to hand out, road contracts, construction jobs, you name it.

  Terry McAuliffe

  Jobs, Hands, Names

  Terry McAuliffe (2007). “What A Party!: My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators and Other Wild Animals”, p.77, Macmillan

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• As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda.

  John Engler

  Agendas, Importance

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

  Sally Kirkland

  Art, School, California

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