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Government cannot be all things to all people.
Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict.
We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.
The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.
It is time to maximize and prioritize our health care dollars.
I'll hire blacks as long as they can do the cotton-pickin' job.
The idea of it (draining Lake Powell) is absolutely ridiculous.
I often say that Arizonans should decide what's best for Arizona.
It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.
I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist.
I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs.
I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer.
When completed, the budget must provide the services we have promised to our constituents.
Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.
I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.
Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did.
City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.
Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.
Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.
What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.
In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.
No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.
Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.
Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?
We can't control forces of nature. But we can control what comes afterward. We have a chance to start fresh.
At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.
Arizona faces many challenges ahead. None is more important or more pressing than passing a new state budget.
I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.
What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.
No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted.
We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.
Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.
Within minutes of the attack, your Department of Public Safety mobilized its Operations Center, headed by a national expert on weapons of mass destruction.
The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them.
We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.
We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets.
We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.
Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.
I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I'm going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that.
The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made.
Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.
During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state.
I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.
In a single moment, we witnessed the worst of human behavior. And in the next, the very best of human behavior. And even more, we witnessed the tremendous spirit of Americans.
Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress.
We're helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We've done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now.
This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it.
We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.
While I have some regrets that this is my last opportunity to deliver a State of the State address, I appreciate and am humbled by the opportunities this great state has given me.
Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.