Black, white, rural, urban, Democrat, Republican, independent. People who come from both ends of the socio-economic spectrum. Male, female. Young and old alike. This is our Kentucky.

There's not one person in this state who believes they are going to have a job in my administration... There's not one person who I've promised anything to.

Have you ever been offered a job by a poor person? No one has.

I always said... I want to be the one who creates jobs. I want to be the guy who develops the wealth of the nation.

I wasn't from a political family. Nobody talked politics.

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other.