When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I acted on my core beliefs on social issues as governor.
I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.
And on this you have my pledge - unlike in the past, when you stood up and did what was right, this governor will not pull the rug out from underneath you - I will sign strong reform bills.
I'm a former governor, and so I was the chief executive, and when the legislature wasn't in session, I was running the state.
I was the governor that drew a tough, tough straw. I was governor during the worst recession since the 1930s, and I had to cut $5 billion from the state budget.
I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that.
I'm committed as governor to valuing and nurturing our relationships with our friends to the south.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
One of the promises I made when I ran was, I'll never vote with my reelection in mind.
I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.