“Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It’s all hard to accept at times, and change can often be a little scary. But if there’s one fact that I’ve learned from raising a family, from running several businesses, from serving in Congress and now as Governor, it’s that nothing has ever grown without changing.”

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope – and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama’s future than an investment in education.

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don’t waste anytime thinking about future elections until we’ve done our jobs here.

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities.

One person can make a difference. In fact, its not only possible for one person to make a difference, its essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.

I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children’s classrooms and in their future.

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

As I approached college years because they were ridiculous on the face of it and when you talk to someone about living forever, they just dismiss you out of hand.

Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die

Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.

I don’t know anyone who is a responsible historian, who is actually trained in the historical method, or anybody who is a biblical scholar who does this for a living, who gives any credence at all to any of this.

I love writing. I’ve always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

I mean, we are a rich mixture of all sorts of forces as well, and our lives are very much worth living.

We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like livin’ in jail.