Governors Quotes

Governors Quote of the day

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.

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.

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

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

So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.

Republican governors are leading the way in helping the private sector create new jobs, reforming government and getting our economy back on track.

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

I have been governor every now and then, but I am a forester all the time.

As your governor, you’re going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page, saying ‘Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell.’

Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?

Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy

I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!

if the people are to be our governors, they must arm themselves with knowledge.

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

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.

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

Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell.

I did not do anything wrong as a governor, even if you accept the verdict as it is, it doesn't indicate that.

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.

There is only one governor, and his name is Gray Davis.

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

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

As governor, part of my job is to tell people things they don't like to hear.

Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.

I've gone from being one of the youngest governors to now the longest consecutive serving governor in the country.

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.

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

It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret.

Donald Trump hates the Common Core, created by governors and state education commissioners, and initially adopted by 45 states. [Betsy] DeVos has actually supported the Common Core until now.

I miss being governor.

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

Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president.

It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.

The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.

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

Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nations Governors highest priority.

Judges are not members of Congress, they're not state legislators, governors, nor presidents. Their job is not to pass laws, implement regulations, nor to make policy.

I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.

The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.

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

I never imagined, never imagined I would have the opportunity to be governor of the state that I love.

I took action as governor to preserve the sanctity of life.

Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.

We have 31 Republican governors in this country. We have roughly the same number of Republican legislatures.

Governors should be defined not just by what they do and say, but who they surround themselves with.

We pick governors from states where governors don't do anything, like Jimmy Carter from Georgia, George W. Bush from Texas.

I don't want to be the president of the United States. I do want to work with the governors across the country to make the states more pivotal, more powerful, as they should be.