Governors Quotes

“A year [after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965], the white backlash had become an emotional electoral issue in California, Maryland and elsewhere. In several Southern states men long regarded as political clowns had become governors or only narrowly missed election, their magic achieved with a “witches’” brew of bigotry, prejudice, half-truths and whole lies.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.”
― Eliot Spitzer

“The more you know yourself and what you want, the more easily you'll recognise your potential dream school and the job that's right for you.”
― Tanya Bunting, Get the Teaching Job You Want: From Self-doubt to Being Confident in 10 Easy Steps

“So you think someone is going to shoot at me twice in one campaign cycle?"
Sticking out her hand, she started counting off on her fingers. "Reagan, Johnson, Nixon, Carter. They've all had over fifty assassination attempts. Some over a hundred!"
His sisters were the earth's most annoying creatures. "Those are all presidents. And they all survived the attempts."
"William Goebel, gubernatorial candidate. George Wallace, gubernatorial candidate."
"You're in the wrong century."
"And you're underestimating the power of racial hatred," she snapped.
"Bill Richardson, Deval Patrick, Bobby Jindal, David Paterson, Susana Martinez, Michelle Grisham-"
"And listing all the minority governors from this century proves what?" she snapped again.
"It proves that we can run for elections without ending up dead.”
― Sonali Dev, Incense and Sensibility

“The bone dagger that is being held in the photograph was made from the leg of Governor Rockefeller's son who was killed and eaten in Indonesia. There are fortunes to be made in Indonesia buying crocodile skins but the climate is hot and humid and not at all desirable.”
― George Leonard Herter, How to Get out of the Rat Race and Live on $10 a Month