You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

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

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

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.

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

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.