It is now clear to me that there were mistakes made by staff members. |
It looked like there was so much bipartisan support for the COLA, I didn't think anybody wanted to make it a major, controversial issue. |
It was frankly a miracle that no one was killed. |
It won't be perfect, and it will receive criticism, and rightly so, but if we don't address it, we won't be able to provide the education we need, ... We can't tax our way out of it. |
It's going to be some time before the city is back up and operating normally, |
My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic opportunity, and our quality of life is so high, that people who are born here can stay here, and people who aren't fortunate enough to be born in Kentucky, can look forward to locating here. |
Of course we made mistakes, ... (But) we've had an investigation that I think has been very political ... and pettiness has taken its toll on the state. |
outside of the students and the preparation that you had before you arrived at school, there is no question that the quality of the teacher is the single most important factor in how much a student learns. |
Over the next couple of years we will work very hard to serve the people. And then I'll leave the future in their hands, |
specific guidelines regarding how the merit system was supposed to work. |
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. |
Taxing tobacco products according to relative risks is a rational tax policy and may well serve the public health goal of reducing smoking-related mortality and morbidity and lowering health care costs associated with tobacco-related disease, |
Thank you for merging the chambers, |
That thing is always getting me in trouble, |
That's tough, but I think that's what a leader is called to do. |