Political Quotes

On the record

U.S. Lieutenant Governors

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

Filter by
8,711 quotes

Current lieutenant governors

Former lieutenant governors

Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 15, 2025

While nearly 2,000 of them are starting to demobilize, the remaining guardsmembers continue without a mission, without direction and without any hopes of returning to help their communities.

nypost.com
Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 15, 2025

The National Guard’s deployment to Los Angeles County has pulled troops away from their families and civilian work to serve as political pawns for the President.

huffpost.com
Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 15, 2025

It will be resolved when [Trump] doesn’t get any attention.

huffpost.com
Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 15, 2025

It’s weakness masquerading as strength. That’s what I don’t like about this son of a bitch. I don’t.

huffpost.com
Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 15, 2025

They’re sitting there on horses with American flags, running through soccer fields, scaring kids that are playing soccer in the middle of the day at a summer camp. For what? Just toughness.

huffpost.com
Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 15, 2025

As the federal government turns its back on innovation and commonsense, California is making our clean energy future a reality.

newsweek.com
Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 15, 2025

It was an assault on Democracy and invoked authoritarian regimes who begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves.

nbcnews.com
Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 15, 2025

For more than a month, the National Guard has been pulled away from their families, communities and civilian work to serve as political pawns for the President in Los Angeles.

cbsnews.com
Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 14, 2025

Hope you enjoy your family time, @JDVance. The families you’re tearing apart certainly won’t.

huffpost.com
Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 14, 2025

Hope you enjoy your family time, [JD Vance]. The families you’re tearing apart certainly won’t.

huffpost.com
Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 14, 2025

I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, this is a line we cannot cross as a nation — this is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.

usatoday.com
Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 14, 2025

The President of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor. This is a day I hoped I would never see in America.

usatoday.com
Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 14, 2025

JD is back in California. He won’t take the time to debate and defend gutting our Medicaid system, taking away kids' school meals, militarizing America’s streets, or adding trillions to the debt. Instead, he’s off to Disneyland. Probably…

usatoday.com
Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 13, 2025

Hope you enjoy your family time, @JDVance. The families you’re tearing apart certainly won’t.

nypost.com
Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 13, 2025

California prosecutes child exploiters and traffickers. Trump tear-gasses children, rips them from their parents, and deports farmworkers. Priorities.

newsweek.com
Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Jul 12, 2025

We cannot accomplish what those objectives were back in before I became governor in a time frame that’s not going to hurt ratepayers.

nypost.com
Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 12, 2025

Sorry the Constitution hurt your feelings, Stephen. Cry harder.

huffpost.com
Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 12, 2025

Instead of targeting the most dangerous people, federal officials have been arbitrarily detaining Americans and hardworking people, ripping families apart, and disappearing people into cruel detention to meet outrageous arrest quotas…

huffpost.com