governor quotes

I am advising the former President, the governor of Florida and the President of the United StatesI guess you could say I rule the world.

- Barbara Pierce Bush
  On her political power. Quoted in Newsweek, 31 Mar.

   I'd be a terrific governor†a terrific president.

- Hillary Rodham Clinton
  Statement during her husband's presidential campaign. Reported in the Washington Post, 22 Feb1995.

How on earth are the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Governor of the Bank of England†to be taken seriouslyagainst that kind of background noise? It is rather like sending your opening batsmen to the crease, only for them to find, the moment the first balls are bowled, that their bats have been broken before the game by the team captain.

- Baron Howe
  Personal statement on his resignation, House of Commons,13 Nov.

Inside every banker, even the governor of the Bank of England, there lies a gambling streak. In me, they recognise one of their own kind.

- Irving Kristol
Quoted in Michael Wilding and Pamela Wilcox  Apple Sauce (1982).

I am humbled, I am honoured and I am moved beyond words to be your governor.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger
  On being sworn in as Governor of California,17 Nov.

'Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.'

- George Bernard Shaw
  Col Pickering and Alfred Doolittle. Pygmalion, act 2.

The Governer was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  The Ballad of Reading Gaol, pt.3, stanza 3.