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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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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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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My whole life I've been an advocate for open records - transparency in government - because I think it brings with it greater accountability.
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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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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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We made a good start toward preserving recreational areas like the Chattahoochee River.
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Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems.
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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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As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development.
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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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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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He was a fair and honest judge. He will be missed by many.
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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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Finally, we all benefit from an economy that has been the envy of the Southeast, and in fact, the envy of most of the nation, for several decades.