Roy Barnes Quotes

Author Image

Roy Barnes

Profession : Politician

Birth : March 11, 1948

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

Roy Barnes

Traffic is only one of the side effects of growth.

Roy Barnes

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it.

Roy Barnes

As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.

Roy Barnes

The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak.

Roy Barnes

We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Roy Barnes

I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity.

Roy Barnes

We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.

Roy Barnes

Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems.

Roy Barnes

Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.

Roy Barnes

We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.

Roy Barnes

We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg.

Roy Barnes

And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer, faster, and more comprehensive.

Roy Barnes

What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are proposals that directly effect the lives of the people we serve.

Roy Barnes

I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government.

Roy Barnes

And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works.

Roy Barnes

After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.

Roy Barnes

There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.

Roy Barnes

In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations.

Roy Barnes

No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions.

Roy Barnes