The unemployment rate went down as I was governor of Massachusetts. We were losing jobs every month when I came into the state.
Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.
Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.
Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues.
I made more decisions in a half-day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate... it's too slow for me.
This is what happened to me when I received the governorship. The corrupt previous governor didn't do the handover. We received the Miranda governorship completely dismantled.
My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.
In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts & Humanities.
Economic growth is the most important initiative every governor faces.
Here's a little known fact - Arnold is the first body builder to run for governor since Janet Reno.
Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?
Fortunato: Governor... you know what this is? The "kiss it good-bye" dance.
Governor Paetus...’ Lupus closed his eyes that we might not read the rage in them. ‘Governor Paetus has informed us that he will return to our camp at Rhandaea with the Fourth legion, there to build the palisades and set up defences sufficient to...
Young Elizabeth: I think it'd be rather exciting to meet a pirate. Norrington: Think again, Miss Swann. Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them. I intend to see that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he des...
As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.
Whenever education budgets get tightened, art programs are the first to get cut. Like the enduring popularity of reality TV, this never ceases to amaze me.
I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.
It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.
There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.
In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.
If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it.
