ROBERT J. BENTLEY

I agree with 81 percent of the people of Alabama who believe that marriage is between one man and one woman.

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

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

We're really not going to get that much money out of a lottery for a small state like Alabama.

I have always said that I believe in the people's right to vote on an issue.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

If things don't work in education, we need change.

My intentions are to try to make this state better.

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

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

I've made a promise that taxes would be my last resort on issues.

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 really want to see good health care brought to all the people of Alabama at a reasonable cost.

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 have no intentions of resigning.