Roy Barnes
Roy Barnes
Roy Eugene Barnes is an American attorney, politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 80th Governor of Georgia from 1999 to 2003...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 March 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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He was a fair and honest judge. He will be missed by many.
We exchanged secrets, as friends always do, and I never worried,
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We are one people forever woven together in a tapestry, ... And it is our job, our duty and our great challenge to fight the voices of division, and to seek the salve of reconciliation.
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And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works.
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We made a good start toward preserving recreational areas like the Chattahoochee River.
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Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems.
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Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.
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As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development.
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By creating a Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, we will give local governments a framework for working together on an issue that affects our whole state.
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It was tremendously uplifting knowing how he had given his life and was then victorious. If he didn't give his all on Calvary, we wouldn't have anything to stand on.
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Georgia was blessed with strong leaders who avoided the kind of divisive distractions that held back most other cities and states in the South.
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I hope you all agree that we're moving in the right direction to protect Georgia as a great place. But we also need to protect Georgia as a people.
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I'm glad that this matter's put behind us,
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If you dislike the process, take it out on me. I am fair game. But don't put our people to anguish because of something that is not their fault.