Jim Gilmore Quotations
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Agent Quotes
I was an Army intelligence agent and a veteran during the Cold War, assigned to West Germany. I was the chairman of the National Commission on Homeland Security and Terrorism for the United States for five years. I was a person who has dealt extensively with these homeland security issues. I was a governor during the 9/11 attack.
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Ability Quotes
I think there needs to be an opportunity for a governor to run for a second term. Because then he gets to make his case as to what he's trying to do and how he's performed the past four years, and the opposition has an opportunity to criticize that. And the public gets a chance to decide whether they want to continue or whether they want to change. Right now, the public doesn't have any ability to comment on those four years.
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Agreeing Quotes
Even though it's clearly better, and I think that there's a sense that the public thinks that it's a good idea, and even though you have governors as different in their points of view as Warner and myself each agreeing that it's the right thing to do, why would the legislature pass a rule that says that they might have to have a governor succeed himself, when they have no term limits?
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Accounting Quotes
If you had a two-term governorship, the governor would know that sooner or later there's an accounting for what he does. And two, he would have time over the next four years to develop a comprehensive, careful plan and implement it over a period of four years. And then, if he's successful with it, he could be re-elected and have another four. And in eight years, you could actually do something, for example, with an issue as complex as transportation.