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Robert J. Bentley [1943-0] American
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Politician, Governor of Alabama


Robert Julian Bentley is an American politician and medical doctor who is the 53rd and current Governor of Alabama. A member of the Republican Party, Bentley was elected Governor in 2010 and reelected in 2014, having been sworn in as Governor once again on January 19, 2015.


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I can assure the people of Alabama I have never done anything illegal.
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At no time I have used the resources of my office to facilitate a relationship of any type.
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I love many members of my staff. In fact, all the members of my staff. Do I love some more than others? Absolutely.
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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.
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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.
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I have no intentions of resigning.
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My intentions are to try to make this state better.
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Have I made mistakes? Yes, I have. And I admit those.
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I want the people of Franklin County to know how much I care about them.
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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.
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If you're in Congress, you vote and give speeches. But governors have to make decisions every day, and presidents have to make decisions every day.
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We need someone who has the experience - and the demeanor - to be the president of the United States.
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There are 500,000 poor children in this state that did not choose to be poor, and we have to take care of them.
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They only have to be right one time, the terrorists do, and we have to be wrong one time.
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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.
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I really want to see good health care brought to all the people of Alabama at a reasonable cost.
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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.
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We will face the challenges head on. We will work with both parties, across the aisle, to make our state better.
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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.
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You can't be partially pregnant.
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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.
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We have to have an adequate number of taxes and an adequate amount of taxes.
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I'm against high taxes. But we certainly cannot be so anorexic in government that we cannot function.
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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.
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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.
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What I don't want to see is our political system corrupted by gambling money, especially casino gambling money.
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I have always said that I believe in the people's right to vote on an issue.
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Alabama is better than to depend on gambling to fund its government.
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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.
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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.
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I endorsed Governor John Kasich for President because I felt like he was the most qualified and the best person to lead our nation.
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I certainly won't vote for Hillary Clinton, but I cannot and will not vote for Donald Trump.
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As your Governor, I will not stand complicit to a policy that places the citizens of Alabama in harm's way.
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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.
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I'm tired of being 51st in this country on the NEAP scores on fourth-grade math. We don't have but 50 states.
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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.
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If things don't work in education, we need change.
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I agree with 81 percent of the people of Alabama who believe that marriage is between one man and one woman.
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We will always obey the law. We will follow the rule of law.
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I have to uphold not only the constitution of Alabama, but I swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States, and we will uphold the law of the United States.
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I was opposed to the government telling me how to practice medicine when I was a doctor.
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I'm opposed to Blue Cross telling me how to practice medicine. Or anybody else.
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I'm opposed to anybody getting between me and the patient.
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When we have agencies like EPA shutting down businesses, I don't trust them at all.
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I encourage the residents of Houston County to let their elected representatives know that closing the Dothan Trooper Post is unacceptable.
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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.
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If the Holy Spirit lives in you, that makes you my brothers and sisters.
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Anyone who has not accepted Jesus, I want to be your brothers and sisters, too.
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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.
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You can't charge somebody with something they have not done.
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I've made a promise that taxes would be my last resort on issues.
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We're really not going to get that much money out of a lottery for a small state like Alabama.
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