Bob Riley

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

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.

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

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

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

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