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

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

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

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.

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

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.