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Robert J. Bentley Quotes

There are 500,000 poor children in this state that did not choose to be poor, and we have to take care of them.

– Robert J. Bentley

I am concerned about the plight of the working poor… If doctors are not paid for seeing those patients, doctors will not go to rural Alabama because you can’t expect a doctor to go to rural Alabama and lose money.

– Robert J. Bentley

I have no intentions of resigning.

– Robert J. Bentley

Either you’re going to have to vote for taxes or not vote for taxes. So, if you’ve already voted for taxes, you’ve already done it.

– Robert J. Bentley

If you start free trade with a Communist country, allow them to develop their own businesses, they don’t remain communistic. They become a free society when they’re able to make money themselves, and we increase trade with them and allow them to really produce products.

– Robert J. Bentley

I want the people of Franklin County to know how much I care about them.

– Robert J. Bentley

Have I made mistakes? Yes, I have. And I admit those.

– Robert J. Bentley

You can’t be partially pregnant.

– Robert J. Bentley

My intentions are to try to make this state better.

– Robert J. Bentley

At no time I have used the resources of my office to facilitate a relationship of any type.

– Robert J. Bentley

I love many members of my staff. In fact, all the members of my staff. Do I love some more than others? Absolutely.

– Robert J. Bentley

We have to have an adequate number of taxes and an adequate amount of taxes.

– Robert J. Bentley

I’m against high taxes. But we certainly cannot be so anorexic in government that we cannot function.

– Robert J. Bentley

Nobody is going to come into Alabama to buy lottery tickets. The only people that are going to buy them here are those that live here, and that’s just a certain percentage of people.

– Robert J. Bentley

You have to have your wallet for security reasons. I’m the governor. And I had to have money. I had to buy something to eat. You have to have identification.

– Robert J. Bentley

What I don’t want to see is our political system corrupted by gambling money, especially casino gambling money.

– Robert J. Bentley

We need someone who has the experience – and the demeanor – to be the president of the United States.

– Robert J. Bentley

They only have to be right one time, the terrorists do, and we have to be wrong one time.

– Robert J. Bentley

If you’re in Congress, you vote and give speeches. But governors have to make decisions every day, and presidents have to make decisions every day.

– Robert J. Bentley

I know some of you don’t care about food stamps, but I’m telling you if it feeds children, you do care about it.

– Robert J. Bentley

We will face the challenges head on. We will work with both parties, across the aisle, to make our state better.

– Robert J. Bentley

The people of this state won’t back down from a challenge. Not in the fight for civil rights, not in defending our nation’s freedoms, not in the aftermath of devastating natural disasters.

– Robert J. Bentley

Raising property taxes in Alabama is never going to happen. The people are never going to vote for that. I don’t like property taxes, either.

– Robert J. Bentley

I can assure the people of Alabama I have never done anything illegal.

– Robert J. Bentley

I really want to see good health care brought to all the people of Alabama at a reasonable cost.

– Robert J. Bentley

You can’t work across party lines when there aren’t many of them. So I’m going to work across Republican Party lines because there are a lot of divisions in the Republican Party.

– Robert J. Bentley