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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Improving education is the single greatest thing we can do for the people of Georgia, but there are other things we also need to do.
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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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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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I think it was a great program, ... It was one of the things I'm proudest of.
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My whole life I've been an advocate for open records - transparency in government - because I think it brings with it greater accountability.
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My very presence here, as governor of this great state... is testament to the power of an individual to fight for truth and clear his own good name.
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It's not a question of slowing. It's a question of making sure that we can grow in an orderly fashion,
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Education leaders in the nation agree that it's a good approach.
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I'm glad that this matter's put behind us,
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It was like driving a spike through our hearts.
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Those people came onto my property like they just got pumped for a football game and they started calling my tenants names.
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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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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.