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.
BOB RILEYTolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.
More Bob Riley Quotes
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Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.
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The success of our economy shouldn’t determine the success of our schools
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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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You elected government officials to make decisions and it’s about time they started making good ones
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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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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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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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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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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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No skill shapes a child’s future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
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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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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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Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
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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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