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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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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What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are proposals that directly effect the lives of the people we serve.
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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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People of the quality of Cory many times are attracted to business and other areas instead of public service. I was impressed by his interest, and I sent a contribution.
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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.
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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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One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it
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After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.
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Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.
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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.
We exchanged secrets, as friends always do, and I never worried,
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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.