Famous Quotes & Sayings

In the last several years, the governor's race in Alabama has been quite lively. I predict this one will be quite a contest.

Jay Bilas

Now don't be surprised -- it would not be out of the realm of possibility for UW-Milwaukee and South Alabama to play in the second round. Oklahoma and Florida better be ready for fights.

Steve Phillips

Now Alabama is open for people to come dive.

Coach Heath addressed that whole thing how Alabama and LSU beat them up inside. He did mention that during halftime, and the players started to recognize that, that each of the post players had somebody little. We just abused them.

Coming off facing some of the best teams and best pitchers last weekend in Palm Springs, I told the team this weekend was pivotal. Those first weekends were a part of our growth and now we need to be in full swing and show who we are this time. I'm so proud of our kids that we stayed tough tonight. Alabama doesn't lose much on their field.

Don Siegelman

A few obsessed government officials have spent millions of dollars of taxpayers' money in an attempt to control a governor's election, ... The people of Alabama aren't going to let that happen, and I'm not going to let it happen.

After many months of careful review, consideration and discussion of the best available scientific information and more than 4,000 public comments, I am confident that listing the Alabama sturgeon as endangered is the right decision.

I've been around high school football in the state of Alabama for 25 years, and I've never seen as much emphasis on one game as this one.

I value the contributions Ron made to the Insurance Commission during his 25 year tenure. After he joined the Alabama Insurance Underwriting Association, he also did a fantastic job in that capacity.

DeMeco Ryans

I wanted to come, because it's always been a big thing here in Alabama. Getting invited, you just represent Alabama. Being younger, watching the game, you're always looking for the guys with the Alabama helmet on. It's special.

As we continue to provide funds for individuals and families, and for public assistance projects and SBA loans, we will see Alabama 's recovery steadily improving.

As long as I've been in the tourism business, 30 years, people who come to the state say one thing a great deal, 'I had no idea Alabama was such a beautiful state,'

Alabama wanted to diversify its economy, and it paid up to do it.

Alabama taxes low income people deeper into poverty.

Alabama's unemployment rate is the lowest it's been in five years. Alabama leads the nation by having the biggest drop in unemployment rate in the last 12 months. Since the governor came into office there have been 500 announcements where new companies have come to Alabama or existing businesses have expanded.

Alabama really is a water-rich state, but we have a problem with distribution of the water we have. What we tend to do, we pump from population centers. So, actually, most of our water is taken from a very small area.

Mark Gottfried

This has always been a tough place for Alabama to play. To win here is big, because Ole Miss has always been tough on us here.

They're very sound fundamentally. They'll be a very, very good club. If we think because we beat Alabama and Alabama beat them that we're going to win that series then we're going to be in for a long weekend.

They're coming from all over - Georgia, Alabama - so they won't have to go all the way to the embassy in Washington, D.C..

They're going to be very hostile come Saturday. Alabama fans would like nothing better than for him to come in here and fall flat on his face. People take it extremely personally when a player like Chad Jackson leaves the state.

David Johnson

There just seems to be an extreme amount of talent in Alabama in general. I really don't have a good explanation for it, but it really is amazing the talent that's come out of Alabama in the last 100 years.

There is the misperception that all of coastal Alabama suffered the same type of damage that impacted Mississippi, and that's not the case.

This is something Alabama has needed for a very long time. We have modeled our project after the Georgia encyclopedia, which was designed exclusively online. Ours will go right to the Internet.

Matthew Lewis

The students of the University of Alabama are a large population and we do not want to be ignored,

the standard deduction is more valuable in Alabama than it is in New York.

Gregory Benford

The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a standard Southern storytelling voice that is typical of the Gulf Coast - Mississippi, Alabama and so on.

Mike Rogers

The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough.

Mike Cooley

I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put cottonseed,

Bill Schneider

Democrats would love to make Mississippi the third state, after South Carolina and Alabama last year, where they've taken the statehouse back from the GOP,

Their confidence factor is at a high level because they've won so many games as of late. They beat South Alabama and knocked both Arkansas teams out of byes. Not to mention they've got seven players and three starters back from an NCAA Tournament team.

Don Siegelman

I'm not going to quit fighting so that Alabama will have a choice for governor in 2006,

The Alabama Supreme Court has made that ruling that a commissioner or a board member must be physically present.

The Alabama Beverage Control Board's narcotics unit, one of the best kept secrets in the state,