Ernie Fletcher
Ernie Fletcher
Ernest Lee "Ernie" Fletcheris an American physician and politician. In 1998, he was elected to the first of three consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives; he resigned in 2003 after being elected the 60th Governor of Kentucky and served in that office until 2007. Prior to his entry into politics, Fletcher was a family practice physician and a Baptist lay minister. He is the second physician to be elected Governor of Kentucky; the first was Luke P...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 November 1952
CountryUnited States of America
Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.
Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.
State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.
A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.
This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.
I would like this to be a new day. I would hope now that we can focus on doing the people's business.
I had a very successful fundraiser here in Louisville. We raised about $150,000,
The geography of Kentucky is drawn not only on the map but also on the culture. Everyone here, regardless of age, lives as part of a generation that has yet to know the full power of true unity as Kentuckians, one and all.