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Best Quotes by Bob Riley (Top 10)
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Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the "hero" within us is revealed.
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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. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.
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The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.
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I think you'd change Alabama fundamentally if in six years someone said, 'If you want the best education in America, you've got to live in Alabama.' you'd change economic development, change the image of this state, you'd offer these kids an opportunity they otherwise would never have had.
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For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.
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According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.
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I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
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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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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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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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The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.
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One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.
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Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.
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Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. 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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You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones.
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The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools.
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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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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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Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
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Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.
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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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When money follows results - we will get more results for our money.
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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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We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future.
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