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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.

Bob Riley

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

Alabama Gentleman Investment
When money follows results – we will get more results for our money
BOB RILEY

Follow Money Results
Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
BOB RILEY

Doe Government Jobs
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 RILEY

Different Family Little Living Scary
The success of our economy shouldn’t determine the success of our schools
BOB RILEY

Determine Economy School
I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
BOB RILEY

Day Memorial Sacrifice Uplifting
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.
BOB RILEY

Country Jesus Rain
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
BOB RILEY

Commonality Men Shared Two War
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope – and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
BOB RILEY

Ambition Drug Fighting
Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.
BOB RILEY

Community Evil People
The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.
BOB RILEY

Amount Education Important
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.
BOB RILEY

Agency Government People
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.
BOB RILEY

Afterlife Men Military
Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.
BOB RILEY

Perseverance Understated Virtue
You elected government officials to make decisions and it’s about time they started making good ones
BOB RILEY

Decision Elected Government Official
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.
BOB RILEY

Believe Differences Making Person
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 RILEY

Jobs Special Thinking
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.
BOB RILEY

Domestic Effort Justice Violence
I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children’s classrooms and in their future.
BOB RILEY

Believe Classroom Future
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.
BOB RILEY

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

Believe Children
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?
BOB RILEY

Belief Believe Country
No skill shapes a child’s future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
BOB RILEY

Children School Skills

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