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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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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It was like driving a spike through our hearts.
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It's been a long path. I've had a lot of good help. I'm ready for the general election.
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Last, but certainly not least, we must continue to cut the taxes that Georgians pay, by increasing the homestead exemption on homes and family farms.
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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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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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We must be willing to change the way we do business if we hope to live up to the responsibilities that go along with being public servants.
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By creating a Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, we will give local governments a framework for working together on an issue that affects our whole state.
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As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development.
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Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.
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Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems.
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We made a good start toward preserving recreational areas like the Chattahoochee River.
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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.
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The law should be a shield for the weak and powerless, not a club for the