There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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I always say you shouldn't weigh yourself. I don't even have a set of scales in my house.
You can't scale if you do it alone, you really need to work with others.
If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.
I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.
That's a large part of the job as governor: to create and maintain the optimal balance.
It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
I don't think I have the demeanor to be a politician. I'm used to making decisions and to a certain extent being in charge.
Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.
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.
It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
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