Top 30 Robert J. Bentley Quotes

I’m opposed to Blue Cross telling me how to practice medicine. Or anybody else.

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.

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.

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.

I was opposed to the government telling me how to practice medicine when I was a doctor.

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.

I have no intentions of resigning.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

When we have agencies like EPA shutting down businesses, I don’t trust them at all.

I certainly won’t vote for Hillary Clinton, but I cannot and will not vote for Donald Trump.

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 tired of being 51st in this country on the NEAP scores on fourth-grade math. We don’t have but 50 states.

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.

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

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.

I encourage the residents of Houston County to let their elected representatives know that closing the Dothan Trooper Post is unacceptable.

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.

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

We will always obey the law. We will follow the rule of law.

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

I’m not worried about state parks. I’m worried about people who can’t be treated because they have schizophrenia or other mental illnesses out there. I’m worried about people.

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.

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.

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