Bob Riley

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.

The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.