Thinking Politics 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
Hope Right Care God Love I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus' place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction. - Bob Riley
Women Freedom Men 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
Government Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. - Bob Riley
Children School First 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. - Bob Riley
Money Education The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent. - Bob Riley
Politics I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers. - Ann Miller
Being Politics In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. - Christian Nestell Bovee
Politics World When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics. - Roland Joffe
Politics People Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics People We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics. - Patricia Hewitt