Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

Public education is an investment in our future.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.