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I'm running for governor; I'm not running for a legislative office.

At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.

Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues.

When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

I recognize that as governor, my job is to sit on the other side of the table from the public sector unions and negotiate effectively on behalf of all the taxpayers of the state, including all of you.

I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do.

Governors, all things being equal, I'd rather have a governor in the White House than somebody that's not had that experience.

I just think it gets confusing for our communities when the federal law is different from the state law.

I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.