The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.
BOB RILEYGovernment does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
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In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities.
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Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope – and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
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You elected government officials to make decisions and it’s about time they started making good ones
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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.
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God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.
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The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.
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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.
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I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children’s classrooms and in their future.
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No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side
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The success of our economy shouldn’t determine the success of our schools
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Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.
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If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it’s up to us. If we don’t do it, who will?
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Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
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Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama’s future than an investment in education.
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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.
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