Top 184 Governors Quotes & Sayings

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

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

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

Governors, all things being equal, I'd rather have a governor in the White House than somebody that's not had that experience.

Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors highest priority.

Even though Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, you now have Republicans in charge of the White House, the Congress, a majority of governors, more governors than they've had in 100 years, more state houses than they've ever had before.

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

We don't agree with the notion of the government to remove governors. It is unconstitutional.

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?

You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.

When Hong Kong was under British administration, governors were dispatched from London to govern this city. We had no say in the matter.

Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

My opinion of our Parliamentarians is shared by all of us who are victims of governors who have ruled over us selfishly.

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.

I think the governors would all agree that what we don't want from the federal government is unfunded mandates.

Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.

Amazing, Yetta thought. Back home I couldn't have chosen my own husband. And here I'm thinking about choosing presidents, governors, mayors, laws.

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

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

The long journey I've taken from where I started, and to end up at the Governors Awards as a governor - it was an emotional and powerful moment for me.

In my opinion governors don't make the best presidents. That's my opinion and it's because they don't have the foreign policy experience and they have to learn on the job.

Republican governors trying to suppress the vote.

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

I'm chairman of the Republican Governors Association.

Governor Kempthorne of Idaho, our chairman of the National Governors Association, is doing a great job bringing all of the nation's governors together to work as partners with the federal government.

History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.

Governors are closer to the people than those in D.C., and we don't see any results from D.C.

I have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.

Governors sometimes have a hard time jumping up on a table and yelling the loudest because they've actually been there. They realize it's difficult to govern in a split environment.

It's no accident that the fastest growing states with the best economies are all led by Republican governors.

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.

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

I don't go around every other day calling for governors to resign. I don't think I ever have.

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.

I'm a chairman on the Board of Governors for the East-West Players, the longest-running Asian-American theater company in America.

My state, Scott Walker, our governors, reformed Medicaid so it actually works, so that the doctors will take the program.

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated.

The only thing I can think to do is if the Democratic Party can do what the Republicans have done, which is go in there and take control of these legislatures and governors' areas.

Governors compete. States compete. People & businesses decide.

We as governors, whether we're Republican or Democrat, we really believe that we know what's best for our people. And in Arizona, and particularly we're very interested about natural resources.

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.

Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government.

Finance ministers and central bank governors have the seats at the table, not labor unions or labor ministers. Finance ministers and central bank governors are linked to financial communities in their countries, so they push policies that reflect the viewpoints and interests of the financial community and barely hear the voices of those who are the first victims of dictated policies.

Our supreme governors, the mob.

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

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.

As the leaders of this great country, I urge my fellow colleagues in the House, governors, and presidential candidates alike to hold ourselves up to a higher standard.

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

I believe, in America, we're a nation of people that are self-governors. This idea that only a chosen few elites have the ability to make decisions is foreign to me.

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.

Well, I don't think so, because the president and members of Congress and governors have the same constituents. It's the American people who are hurting.

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

My proposal that Fed governors should signal their commitment to public service by wearing Hawaiian shirts and Bermuda shorts has so far gone unheeded.

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

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

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

The majority of Puerto Ricans in Florida and New York are Democrats, but nonetheless, we have Republican governors.

My colleagues on the Board of Governors and I understand the value of having a diverse financial system that includes a large and vibrant contingent of community banks.