Governors Quotes

• The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Government, People

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• Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.

  Matthew Arnold

  World, Force, Ready

  Matthew Arnold, Stefan Collini (1993). “Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

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• It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

  Upton Sinclair

  Wisdom, Men, People

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference.

  Bill Richardson

  Inspirational, Courage, Differences

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Certainly being governor is an important job, and there are quality governors that could serve our country as president and have done so in the past.

  Marco Rubio

  Jobs, Important, Important Jobs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

  David Wilkerson

  Change, Judging, Wicked

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• The richest persons in Africa are heads of state, governors and ministers. So every 'educated' African who wants to be rich - and there is nothing wrong with wanting to be rich - heads straight into government or politics.

  George Ayittey

  Government, Want, Rich

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• All I can tell you is when the governor calls, I answer his phone.

  George W. Bush

  Phones, Answers, Bushism

  George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.1386, Government Printing Office

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• My sense is, as governor I've gotten a lot of stuff done.

  Tim Kaine

  Done, Stuff

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• When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number.

  Kinky Friedman

  Numbers, Telephones, Firsts

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• Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?

  Sean Hannity

  Country, Greatness, Ignorant

  "The Document Sean Hannity Doesn’t Want You To Read". www.americanprogress.org. June 16, 2004.

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• I'll hire blacks as long as they can do the cotton-pickin' job.

  Evan Mecham

  Jobs, Long, Black

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• If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Teacher, Firefighter, Political

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• If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed.

  James Oglethorpe

  Together, Principles, Slavery

  James Edward Oglethorpe (1990). “General Oglethorpe's Georgia: 1738-43”

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• The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Home, Should Have, Broken

  Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition”, p.578, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'

  Chelsea Clinton

  Growing Up, Father, One Day

  "Chelsea Clinton reveals politics, kids, are a possibility" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• The rule of God is not tyranny, for it does not partake of a political or governmental character -- it is not a rule of authority. God is not a governor of the universe, for a governor rules over those of a like nature with himself, and exercises a political and judicial power, while God exercises a creative, a preserving, and a determinative power of an altogether different kind. If I am a servant of God, I am under no tyranny; for God does not govern, but supports, sustains, and directs me.

  William Batchelder Greene

  God, Character, Exercise

  William Batchelder Greene, Jakob Böhme, Antoine Fabre d'Olivet, Philippe-Joseph-Benjamin Buchez (1849). “Remarks on the science of history: followed by An a priori autobiography”, p.35

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• Governors have to balance budgets. And they have to make decisions. And they have to do things that sometimes aren't popular. And they also have to bring people together to try to solve problems.

  Jeb Bush

  People, Decision, Trying

  "Is the left waging a war against college men?". "The Kelly File" with Megyn Kelly, www.foxnews.com. June 17, 2015.

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• I never thought that Bill Clinton should be the president. When he was running to be the president of the United States, he said on over a hundred occasions, he said the following: He said, 'One of the great accomplishments while I was the governor of Arkansas, was to take my state in education from 50th to 49th.' And I thought, ' you know, Bill, you should keep that a secret.

  Lewis Black

  Running, Accomplishment, Secret

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• ...but let it suffice us to know that it became God, who is the supreme Ruler, Governor and Judge of all that sin should be punished with death in the sinner or his surety; and therefore if God would bring many sons to glory, the Captain of their salvation must undergo sufferings and death, to make satisfaction for them.

  John Owen

  Son, Suffering And Death, Judging

  John Owen “Epistle to the Hebrews”, Kregel Publications

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• The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president is to get the people in the room and to bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country's and the state's greater interests ahead of their own personal interests.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Jobs, America

  "Veepstakes hits high gear at CPAC" by Juana Summers, www.politico.com. June 8, 2012.

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  Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

  James Madison

  Education, Wisdom, Freedom

  1822; cited in U.S. Senate, Alleged Assassination Plots (1975).

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

  J. C. Watts

  Oklahoma, Tulsa, States

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• Governor Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Political Humor

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

  Rick Perry

  Beautiful

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