Charlie Baker

If our elected representatives want to further increase the gas tax, they should have to take a vote each time they do. ”

You just can't get surprised when you get surprised, because weird stuff just comes over the transom all the time, and it's not necessarily anything that you've planned for or anticipated. ”

I rode it a lot before I was governor. I rode the commuter rail for a lot of years, I rode the T for a lot of years, and I talk to people all the time who ride both. ”

I'm a very big believer that the primary focus for any organization at any point in time should always be smarter, better, faster. ”

I've said for a long time that the governor and the mayors should be far more engaged in this conversation at the federal level. I mean, the consequences and the impact of the federal government's broken immigration policy do not land on the backs of the people in Washington. They just don't. ”

This is Massachusetts, we're supposed to be one of the tech centers of the world. We have MIT within walking distance of the state house. ”

I think people are kind of tired of the really amped-up rhetoric that passes for a lot of political dialogue, and they appreciate the fact that that's not the way we are participating in this process. ”

Our Founders worried a lot about the tyranny of the majority. They designed our form of government to provide a loud voice for minority points of view. They hated the idea of unilateral power. And wanted to force advocates and policy makers, through structure and process, to compromise. ”

One of the advantages of getting elected governor when you're 58 instead of 38 is you have some mileage on you and part of that means some history and some relationships with people who have spent a fair amount of their career in the public and in the private sector. ”

When leaders choose to burn bridges instead of build them, they sacrifice their ability to do their jobs. ”