Top 39 Governor Of Texas Quotes
#1. I'm all about job creation. That's what I've done for ten years as the governor of Texas, and that's what I'm focused on.
Rick Perry
#2. This is called "spiritual lifting." It's not heavy lifting. The governor of Texas should not be confused with Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's a powerful position. The governor of Texas can't do any heavy lifting really. It's not that powerful a position.
Kinky Friedman
#3. Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president?
Dick Cheney
#4. 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.
Christopher Hitchens
#5. No. It was almost impossible to electrocute someone these days, unless you were the governor of Texas.
Louise Penny
#6. The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that 'if English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me'.
Christopher Hitchens
#7. I talked to my little brother, Jeb
I haven't told this to many people. But he's the governor of
I shouldn't call him my little brother
my brother, Jeb, the great Governor of Texas.
George W. Bush
#8. I was surprised when shortly after New Year's Day of 1983, the Governor of Texas summoned me to his office, because I hadn't been aware that he knew I was in town.
James A. Michener
#9. I'm reminded of the lady governor of Texas who, during a controversy about bilingualism in the State House in Austin, said if English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it was plenty good enough for her.
Christopher Hitchens
#10. I want to be governor [of Texas] because I need the closet space.
Kinky Friedman
#11. As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.
George W. Bush
#12. When George W. Bush picked Dick Cheney, it was a reassuring sign that the Texas governor would have an experienced, prudent voice at his side.
Jeff Greenfield
#13. I'm not flirting. I'm just paying extra attention to someone who's very attractive.
Kristen Proby
#14. Big news from last night's Republican debate, you guys. It turns out George Bush was actually the smart Texas governor.
Jimmy Fallon
#15. If you're white and wealthy, Texas is a great place, however, no Texas governor Republican or Democrat is eager to raise taxes and without that you can't expand access to health care or decrease the cost of higher education.
Calvin Jillson
#16. Was he actually looking forward to seeing Cara again? The goofy way his lips were curved into a smile said yes, and horror of horrors, he realized he was experiencing some sort of crush. He needed to kill something.
Larissa Ione
#17. A thin line between the haters and the ones who love us.
A thinner line from the freedom and the foul judges,
In the streets where the snake niggas hold grudges.
Intelligent Hoodlum
#18. In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.
Molly Ivins
#19. Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future.
Wendy Davis
#20. North Carolina needs to revamp the tax code completely. We have some of the highest tax rates, like the corporate tax rate, in the country.
David Rouzer
#21. Texas governor Rick Perry has been in the race only three days, and he's already blowing away the competition like it is a trespassing coyote.
Stephen Colbert
#23. I put the 'fun' in fund-raising and the 'rah' in Israel.
Stewart Rahr
#24. I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas.
Wendy Davis
#25. Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.
Wendy Davis
#26. Philip was fascinated by the all-absorbing question of the Beatific Vision: whether the souls of the blessed see the face of God immediately upon entering Heaven or whether they have to wait until the Day of Judgment.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#27. If we have strong desire then God miraculously removes obstacles and gives us the power to overcome them.
Radhanath Swami
#28. Texas governor Rick Perry's wife, Anita, has come out slugging in her glittering leopard-print jacket against what she sees as the unfair treatment of her husband. She tearfully said that he has been 'brutalized' for his faith.
Patti Davis
#29. Physicians need to capitalize on computerized, clinical decision-support tools that help them to keep abreast of medical knowledge and apply it uniformly.
Sanjaya Kumar
#30. Texas governor Rick Perry said God is calling on him to run for President. But Michele Bachmann said that god is calling on her to run for President. You know, if God is that indecisive, he's probably for Mitt Romney!
Jay Leno
#31. 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.
George Ryan
#32. I am convinced that when we bring our griefs and sorrows within the story of God's own grief and sorrow, and allow them to be held there, God is able to bring healing to us ans new possibilities to our lives. That is, of course, what Good Friday and Easter are all about
N. T. Wright
#33. I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that with the right leadership in government, where you start has nothing to do with how far you go.
Wendy Davis
#34. You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing his best to instantly cast himself as the big dog in the Republican pack.
Jeff Goodell
#35. Texas Governor Rick Perry distanced himself from George W. Bush by saying, 'I went to Texas A&M. He went to Yale.' In other words, his idea of instilling confidence is by saying, 'Don't worry. I'm not as smart as George W. Bush.'
Conan O'Brien
#36. There should be a law passed to keep people like me from being alone with their thoughts for too long."
'Mona Rogers in Person
Philip-Dimitri Galas
#39. I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
Patrick Ness
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