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Bob Riley
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 3
Business Executive
Cattle Rancher
Farmer
Former Governor Of Alabama
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Real Estate Broker
Real Estate Development
Ashland
Alabama
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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.
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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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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.
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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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Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
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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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Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
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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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No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
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I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
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If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out.
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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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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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