Governor Quotes

You're going to have pushback from governors, county executives, mayors, fire chiefs, police chiefs all up and down the emergency-management structure who wonder whether the military will become a super domestic responder and who do they respond to, ... Who determines if a state can't handle a disaster? What if a riot happens in a major city? Does a mayor get a call that the 82nd Airborne has just landed in your city? We've got to talk about this. - Mike Huckabee

You're feeling the responsibility for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on your shoulder in a way that I couldn't feel as lieutenant governor. - William Scranton

You wouldn't run for the United States Senate or for governor or for anything else without answering people's questions about what you believe. And I think the Supreme Court is no different. - Evan Bayh

You would think there would be a great amount of interest in the governor's race, but we just aren't seeing it. - Mike Lawrence

You won the governor's race last year. - Ken Mehlman

You talk to kids who don't drink, and 65 percent of kids say they don't drink because their parents disapprove. Not because their peers didn't approve, or because Shaquille O'Neal didn't approve, or the governor and first lady didn't approve. We're background noise. It's the parents who can really bring about change. - Nancy Freudenthal

You never know until you see a lot of meat added to the bones of what was talked about during the campaign. But, I think what has energized business people here in New Jersey for the first time in I think 60 or 70 years is you have a governor who has a business background. - Philip Kirschner

You may want to move onto another topic, but I, I would just say this to the American people. If you believe that we can cut taxes by $5 trillion and add $2 trillion in additional spending that the military is not asking for, $7 trillion, just to give you a sense, over 10 years, that's more than our entire defense budget and you think that by closing loopholes and deductions for the well-to-do, somehow you will not end up picking up the tab, then Governor Romney's plan may work for you. - Barack Obama