Roy Barnes Quotes

• We are all one – or at least we should be – and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.

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  Topics in Challenge, Job

• Traffic is only one of the side effects of growth.

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  Tags in Growth, Effects

• What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are proposals that directly effect the lives of the people we serve.

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  Tags in Struggle, Daily

• There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public’s right to know.

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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Earth

• We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hope, Changed

• We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Wonderful

• The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak.

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  Tags in Amendment, Rejects

• We made a good start toward preserving recreational areas like the Chattahoochee River.

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  Tags in Start

• We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg.

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  Tags in Forget

• The time has come to end social promotion in our schools.

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  Tags in Social

• Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.

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  Tags in Learn, Child

• No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can’t or won’t scrutinize their actions.

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  Tags in Government, Won

• Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems.

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  Topics in Education

  Tags in Problems

• I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government.

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  Tags in Government, Honest

• I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity.

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  Topics in Business

  Tags in Profit

• Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.

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  Tags in Politician, Party

• Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we can’t rest on our laurels.

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  Tags in Rest, Position

• So today I say, the outlook in Georgia has never been brighter.

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  Tags in Today

• One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it’s tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it.

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  Tags in Law

• In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations.

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  Tags in Problems

Roy Barnes (28)

Birth:	11th March, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Roy Eugene Barnes served as the 80th Governor of Georgia from January 1999 until January 2003. Barnes was also a candidate for Governor of Georgia in the 2010 election.

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