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.

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

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

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.

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

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.

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.