Maintaining a positive working relationship with Mexico’s leadership will also be crucial to increasing communication and trade. I plan to personally maintain those relationships. – Doug Ducey
Arizonans want us to come together, put aside politics, and solve problems. You want us to do our jobs in way that reflects the best of our state. You want us to stop and listen – something that doesn’t always come naturally to people in politics. – Doug Ducey
These are basic, nonpartisan, non-ideological questions. How many United States senators are there… who was the first president. – Doug Ducey
I enjoy being out; I like being around people, but at a certain point in time, I kind of run out of charming, and I’m ready to go home, and I’m very comfortable alone. – Doug Ducey
In our administration, we’re going to follow the law, and any policy that we move forward will fall well within the law and the Arizona Constitution. – Doug Ducey
One state can’t set everything right, but here in Arizona, we can set an example for the rest of the country in how those of us in elected office conduct ourselves and interact with each other and our constituents. – Doug Ducey
As I have traveled the state, I have seen firsthand that there are Arizonans who are hurting. – Doug Ducey
Texas has an established trade office in Mexico City, as do other Texan cities. They have a more mature trade relationship with Mexico, and I want to make Arizona a leader in this area also. – Doug Ducey
One way to ensure that all kids will be successful in school and life is by focusing on literacy by the end of the third grade. – Doug Ducey
As a former board member for Teach For America, I understand that every child has the ability to learn and that, no matter their circumstances at home, we have a duty and a responsibility to educate them and to do it well. – Doug Ducey
I believe we need to ensure there are no refugees placed in Arizona with connections to terrorist organizations. – Doug Ducey
One area where the state can be more effective in addressing the doctor shortage is to focus on making sure that Arizona is a friendly environment for doctors and those wishing to practice medicine. – Doug Ducey
Every large brand has franchisees and stores that don’t make it. It’s unfortunate, and Cold Stone did everything it could to support its franchisees, but some failure rate is part of the business. – Doug Ducey
We all should be concerned if our kids don’t know who Sandra Day O’Connor, John Adams, and Ronald Reagan are. – Doug Ducey
Arizona has three of the top 10 public high schools in the nation. We know how to educate a child. We just need to do it more often in more locations, and where we’re having issues are in low-income areas where – where kids don’t have a parent that cares or two parents that care, and, of course, also in our tribal nations. – Doug Ducey
Education standards need to be set at the state level. High standards are an important way to ensure that the education system we are funding is actually working and producing, at a minimum, what we would expect it to. – Doug Ducey