While I have some regrets that this is my last opportunity to deliver a State of the State address, I appreciate and am humbled by the opportunities this great state has given me.

Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.

The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made.

Government cannot be all things to all people.

The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them.

Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?

When completed, the budget must provide the services we have promised to our constituents.