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.
BOB RILEYLadies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama’s future than an investment in education.
More Bob Riley Quotes
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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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I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children’s classrooms and in their future.
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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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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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When money follows results – we will get more results for our money
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The success of our economy shouldn’t determine the success of our schools
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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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I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
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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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Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.
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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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Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.
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Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit’s efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach out to victims.
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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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