Governors 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 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. - Laura Bush

Without a governorship you came out of your mother's womb, without a governorship you've lived to this day, and without a governorship you'll go - or they'll take you - to the grave. - Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Who does the EU-3 represent in the negotiations? Is it the (IAEA) board of governors, the EU, the United Nations or themselves? - Ali Larijani

Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues. - Ernie Fletcher

When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true. - William J. Clinton

When it appears as though the governors of the Federal Reserve believe that the end of the rate increases is near, that's very good news for investors. A lack of ambiguity from the Federal Reserve is always a little bit of a shocker. - Hugh Johnson

What's needed is some growing evidence from the states that they want to ban executing minors. More state governors and legislatures have to weigh in. They need some momentum in the next year or two for the justices to say, now is the time to decide this. - Richard Dieter

What we're looking at now is international tribunals which would have some authority over state government, and that's something that hasn't been thoroughly thought through, and that's concerning to governors and legislators. - Alan Stearns

What prompted me was we finally have two governors (Napolitano and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson ) finally doing what the federal government should have been doing all along. That is, that we truly have an emergency on our southern border. She actually did something. - Bob Barr