Political Quotes

On the record

U.S. Governors

Quotes from current and former U.S. state governors.

Filter by
125,170 quotes

Current governors

Former governors

Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Feb 9, 1925

No, I don't think the views of Mr. Hearst and Mr. Sykes, of Iowa, who came in this morning relative to the appointment of a new Secretary of Agriculture, caused any delay, because I found they were in practical harmony with my own views.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Feb 9, 1925

I think the general policy of Government administration at the present time is unification, rather than the establishment of new and independent services.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Feb 9, 1925

I am trying to get a man who especially represents agriculture and who is sympathetic with the cooperative movement.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Feb 5, 1925

I didn't have any information about reported frauds and irregularities in the recent Porto Rican elections.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Feb 5, 1925

The Secretary of War shall have the supervision, management, and control of this monument.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Feb 5, 1925

Now, therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by section two of said Act of Congress, do proclaim that said lands hereinbefore described are hereby reserved from…

presidency.ucsb.edu
Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Feb 5, 1925

Warning is hereby given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, cut, injure, destroy, deface, or take away any trees or any other property on said lands, or to occupy, settle, or locate upon any lands reserved by this proclamation.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Feb 2, 1925

I don't know as I can quite say that I have been assured of any Congressional action on agricultural legislation at this session.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Feb 2, 1925

If there is an exigency, I am certain that the Congress will be able to pass legislation at this session.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Jan 29, 1925

I don't think I can make any comment relative to the proposals of the French and German Governments for a security pact [the Locarno Agreements] for the guarantee of European peace.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Jan 29, 1925

It seems to me that it is almost entirely a European political subject in which we can't take any very helpful part.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Jan 26, 1925

NO. AS I say, it is a general suggestion of what has to be met and an effort that the heads of the departments have to be constantly engaged in, otherwise the departments will be loaded up with a great many more people than is necessary…

presidency.ucsb.edu