Quotes from Robert J. Bentley

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

My goal is to have a simple lottery to help our people and solve a decades old problem dealing with our general fund, particularly Medicaid. Let us solve this together and allow the people in your district the right to be a part of the process with a vote.

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.

I'm opposed to anybody getting between me and the patient.

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.

You can't charge somebody with something they have not done.

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

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.

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

To think that we have to depend on some of the most dependent people in our population to fund our government when corporations won't even pay their fair share.

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

You can't be partially pregnant.

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

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

I've made a promise that taxes would be my last resort on issues.

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.

My interest only is trying to help the lives of the people of this state, try to educate people and create jobs. It's not even for me. I've never gained anything. I don't even take a salary. I've never gained anything from being here except for the joy and the privilege of serving the people of this state.

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

I am committed to finding new revenue so that state agencies, like the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, can continue to provide essential public safety departments to Alabamians.

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

I endorsed Governor John Kasich for President because I felt like he was the most qualified and the best person to lead our nation.

Alabama is better than to depend on gambling to fund its government.

I don't think anyone can accept us being 51st in the country dealing with fourth-grade math scores and reading scores in the fourth and sixth grades that are close to the bottom. That's not acceptable. It's not acceptable to the people of Alabama.

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.