I really feel it's time to dissolve the current relationship of governor and lieutenant governor by running as a ticket.

It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.

You don't hire those positions. You get the money that was set aside, for over time costs.

The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.

If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.

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