I believe in forgiveness, I believe in second chances, and I believe we should find a way to restore the Second Amendment rights to people who are qualified and have shown themselves qualified to have those rights restored to them. – Matt Bevin
Everybody is welcome to come to dinner, but there’s going to be the adult table and the kids’ table. Whiny people who want to throw food and make noise and interrupt and be rude and act like children, they can sit at the kids’ table. – Matt Bevin
You can’t punch people in the face, punch people in the face, punch people in the face, and ask them to have tea and crumpets with you and think it’s all good. Life doesn’t work that way. – Matt Bevin
I am genuinely sorry that my attendance at an event which, other than my comments, appears to have primarily involved a discussion of cockfighting, has created concern on the part of many Kentucky voters. – Matt Bevin
I’m going to defend the right of people to freely gather and discuss whatever they want to. – Matt Bevin
As Governor, I will direct my Secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services not to distribute federal taxpayer dollars from that department to Planned Parenthood clinics. – Matt Bevin
Criminalizing behavior, if it’s part of the heritage of this state, is in my opinion a bad idea. – Matt Bevin
McConnell’s the Senate Republican leader, but he refuses to lead on defunding Obamacare. What good is a leader like that? – Matt Bevin
I am not, and have never been, a supporter of cockfighting or any other forms of animal cruelty. – Matt Bevin
There are quite enough sheep already – be a shepherd: be somebody who’s bold and who leads. – Matt Bevin
I’ve signed many documents as president and CEO as required by law. I signed every single document that we were required to file – every single one of them. – Matt Bevin
If you’ve ever questioned your faith, you’re going to question it when you are burying your own children. – Matt Bevin
The people of Kentucky have had enough. They have had enough of bailouts for Wall Street banks. – Matt Bevin
I think we will be safer when we can concentrate law enforcement and criminal justice resources and energies on those individuals who truly need, for the safety of society… to be incarcerated. – Matt Bevin
It is important never to forget our history, but parts of our history are more appropriately displayed in museums, not on government property. – Matt Bevin
I’m a believer in the Constitution and in the First Amendment. Not just for raising money but also for freedom of speech. – Matt Bevin
