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  • A new report reveals that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie spent over $82,000 on food at NFL games. Christie said, 'Hey, both of those games went into overtime.'

    Games   Nfl   Jersey  
  • When I get to the White House, there will be no hesitation from me to make the tough decisions that need to be made because I've been doing it for the last 13 years as a former federal prosecutor and now as the governor of New Jersey.

    Years   White   House  
    "Christie explains changed stance on gun laws; Trump Jr. talks father's candidacy; Fiorina scolds Clinton". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 6, 2016.
  • I heard governor Romney here called me an economic lightweight because I wasn't a Wall Street financier like he was. Do you really believe this country wants to elect a Wall Street financier as the president of the United States? Do you think that's the experience that we need? Someone who's going to take and look after as he did his friends on Wall Street and bail them out at the expense of Main Street America.

    Country   Wall   Believe  
    "Scrambling Santorum lashes out at Romney in pivotal state of Illinois" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2012.
  • Republican governors are leading the way in helping the private sector create new jobs, reforming government and getting our economy back on track.

    Jobs   Government   Track  
    "Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell Named RGA Chairman". www.rga.org. August 15, 2011.
  • My whole life everyone always said 'it can't be done', 'you'll never do it', 'you will fail', 'no one has ever gone from Austria and become a Mr Universe, blah, blah, blah', or when I ran for governor people were sceptical. It was 'you're going to lose' and 'people don't take people from show-business seriously in politics'. So, I've heard all the 'it's impossible' thing but I didn't pay any attention because I believed that I could do it.

    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.

    Men   Texas   Proud  
  • I don't like the fact that we're not creating jobs the way we used to create jobs in Pennsylvania. I lament the fact that we're not setting the table for really robust economic development, here in Pennsylvania, where we can do that. I lament the fact that our schools are being hollowed out. We need a fresh start. I think we need to go in a different direction. I think we need a new governor.

    Jobs   School   Thinking  
    FaceBook post by Tom Wolf from Sep 23, 2014
  • The fact that I'd gone through my own transition as governor of Indiana and had been informed by that experience, I think was an asset.

    Source: www.dailyjournal.net
  • If you're Chris Christie, who is governor of New Jersey, a state that obviously was impacted by 9/11, this gives you an opportunity to talk about how, as governor, you had to deal with terrorism and security issues.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • I spent ten years in the private sector, actually learning how business works. I'm the governor of Ohio, and I inherited a state that was on the brink of dying. And we turned it all around with jobs and balanced budgets and rising credit and tax cuts, and the state is unified, and people have hope again in Ohio.

    Jobs   Cutting   Ohio  
    Republican presidential primary debate, www.cbsnews.com. August 6, 2015.
  • 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.

    Gratitude   Effort   Age  
    Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.522
  • God is on my side, and that's all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don't pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that's the end of it.

    "Mr. T" by Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. June 26, 2002.
  • Yesterday, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he would run for governor of California. The announcement was good news for Florida residents who now live in the second flakiest state in the country.

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger has been offered a role in a sequel to 'The Terminator.' In this one he travels back in time and kills the person who suggested he run for governor.

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

    George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.1386, Government Printing Office
  • Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.

    Wise   Home   Learning  
  • What does it say about our country when people are so desperate for an alternative to our one-party state masquerading as a two-party state that they'll even elect a professional wrestler governor?

    Country   Party   Two  
    Address to the US Green Party, 2000.
  • Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean was all smiles, well smirks, after picking up the endorsement of former Vice President Al Gore at a rally in Harlem ... Gore went on to praise Dean for taking a tough anti-war stance before the invasion of Iraq and he praised Dean supporters in hopes that will ease his concerns over lack of foreign policy experience, and his lack of support among blacks and Latinos, and his hot temperament, and perceived arrogance, and policy flip-flops, and campaign glitches. Well, there's a lot going on here.

    War   Iraq   Support  
  • [Mitch Daniels] was not a bad governor. He could be playful, but - or communicator.I'm just saying it will - I think will be - every candidate comes into the White House, assuming if [Hillary Clinton] wins, or if she does win, with strengths and weaknesses. This will be a weakness, because this was such an easy moment to show some heart.

    "Shields and Brooks on which convention was more successful, Clinton's failure to emotionally connect". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. July 29, 2016.
  • When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frankly, I didn't think I was ready. I wasn't comfortable that I was prepared to do the job.

    Running   Jobs   Thinking  
  • I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income.

    Thinking   Income   Gains  
  • Every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as the governor, I came down on the side of preserving the sanctity of life.

    Years   Pieces   Sides  
    "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com.
  • If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.

  • I don't know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A lot of media people will be looking for a case that might make Texas Governor George Bush think twice about what he's doing.

    Thinking   Texas   Media  
  • 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.

    Country   Jobs   America  
    "Veepstakes hits high gear at CPAC" by Juana Summers, www.politico.com. June 8, 2012.
  • In fact, in the early days of the Republican primary, I was pointing to Governor [Scott ] Walker as the one guy who was demonstrating he knew how to fight back against the radical left and win! And he's tough, and he didn't shrink from it.

    Fighting   Winning   Guy  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it.

    Jobs   Usa   Careers  
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger is in some trouble. Today, the Los Angeles Times broke a story that quoted six women who claimed that Arnold Schwarzenegger sexually harassed them. When asked about it, President Clinton said 'six? That's not enough experience to be governor.'

    President   Today   Six  
  • I want to win. [...] We're not going on win by doing what Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton do each and every day. Dividing the country. Saying, creating a grievance kind of environment. We're going to win when we unite people with a hopeful, optimistic message. I have that message because I was a governor of a state that saw people lifted up, because we had high sustained economic growth.

    "Transcript of the 2015 GOP debate (9 pm)". www.cbsnews.com. August 6, 2015.
  • Six women have come forward that say Arnold Schwarzenegger groped them without their consent. This proves he would be a hands-on governor.

    Hands   Would Be   Six  
    "The Recall Show With Jay Leno" by Sharon Waxman, www.washingtonpost.com. October 09, 2003.
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