Quotes from Matt Bevin

There's not one person in this state who believes they are going to have a job in my administration... There's not one person who I've promised anything to.

It is important never to forget our history, but parts of our history are more appropriately displayed in museums, not on government property.

I have no favors to pay back.

We will hold Planned Parenthood accountable for knowingly endangering their patients by providing illegal abortions at a facility that was not properly licensed nor prepared to handle an emergency.

It's a question of whether or not we the people are still in charge. And by 'we the people,' I mean, is this truly a government of and by and for the people.

We need education across the board on all fronts.

There is no one in America more qualified to talk about bailouts than Mitch McConnell.

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.

If you've ever questioned your faith, you're going to question it when you are burying your own children.

I'm going to defend the right of people to freely gather and discuss whatever they want to.

I don't think it's wise to shut down the government.

I don't care if it's a dollar or two dollars. If I'm governor, people should have skin in the game.

I have nine children. It breaks my heart to think that it might be their blood is needed to redeem something, to reclaim something that we, through our apathy and our indifference, have given away.

This administration will have no tolerance for the type of brazen disregard that Planned Parenthood has shown for both the safety of women and the rule of law.

McConnell's the Senate Republican leader, but he refuses to lead on defunding Obamacare. What good is a leader like that?

Criminalizing behavior, if it's part of the heritage of this state, is in my opinion a bad idea.

I name my companies things that are intentional, that are specific, that are worthy of ridicule if you are anything other.

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.

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.

It's nonsense. If, in fact, putting one out of four people in the state of Kentucky on Medicaid created 12,000 jobs and $30 billion in economic prosperity, why wouldn't we put every single person in the state of Kentucky on Medicaid? We'd create 48,000 jobs by that logic and $120 billion worth of economic advantage.

I have 9 children; I'm a big believer in childhood education, but we've got to be smart about getting a good return on the investment of those dollars.

Is it going to be the people of Kentucky who decides who their senator's going to be, or is it going to be Mitch McConnell saying, 'This is my protege Trey; this is who your next senator's going to be.'?

There is going to have to be austerity in the state of Kentucky.

Is it average Joes like ourselves who go to the ballot box and truly decide who are going to be the leaders, not only of their party - of their government - at the local, at the state, at the federal level? Is that really who's still in charge?