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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Now, we are already in the process of developing tests that measure students' ability at different grade levels in reading, language arts and math.
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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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empowered folks that had never been empowered before.
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This one focused on instead of asking God for things to benefit just us as individuals, we should look around more and see what we can do for him.
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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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Maynard Jackson was a bear of a man. But he had to have a body that's big to house the heart that beat within his soul.
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My daddy used to say, 'Have you ever wondered why two stores sit side by side, and one makes money and the other doesn't?' And at 14 or 15 I didn't care, but he'd always tell me anyway. It was management. And what's true for a store is true for the governor.
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We must be willing to change the way we do business if we hope to live up to the responsibilities that go along with being public servants.