Matt Bevin Quotes
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Is it average Joes like ourselves who go to the ballot box and truly decide who are going to be the leaders, not only of their party - of their government - at the local, at the state, at the federal level? Is that really who's still in charge?
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As Governor, I will direct my Secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services not to distribute federal taxpayer dollars from that department to Planned Parenthood clinics.
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Everybody is welcome to come to dinner, but there's going to be the adult table and the kids' table. Whiny people who want to throw food and make noise and interrupt and be rude and act like children, they can sit at the kids' table.
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Kentucky HEALTH will allow us to continue to provide expanded Medicaid coverage. But unlike the current Medicaid expansion under Obamacare, it will do so in a fiscally responsible manner that ensures better health outcomes for recipients.
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There are no taxes that are unpaid, nor were there any taxes that I was responsible for that didn't get paid.
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I am a believer in smaller government, limited government, less regulation, less taxes, because I think to have more of those things, we suffocate the entrepreneurial spirit of this nation.
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While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary.
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Donald Trump is an interesting fellow.
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I don't care if it's a dollar or two dollars. If I'm governor, people should have skin in the game.
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I have nine children. It breaks my heart to think that it might be their blood is needed to redeem something, to reclaim something that we, through our apathy and our indifference, have given away.
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The people of Kentucky have had enough. They have had enough of bailouts for Wall Street banks.
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I'm not going to run to the left of Mitch McConnell; I'm not going to run to the right of Mitch McConnell. I am going to run right over the top of Mitch McConnell.
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We cannot be complacent about the determination of radical Islamic extremists to destroy our freedoms.
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Look at the decisions I've made in my life personally. To paint the picture intentionally that I don't believe in, that I'm not a supporter of, that I'm not an advocate of early childhood education is a mistruth. It's an absolute and outright lie, and to continue to perpetuate it is irresponsible.
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I have never been a member of a Tea Party.
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It's nonsense. If, in fact, putting one out of four people in the state of Kentucky on Medicaid created 12,000 jobs and $30 billion in economic prosperity, why wouldn't we put every single person in the state of Kentucky on Medicaid? We'd create 48,000 jobs by that logic and $120 billion worth of economic advantage.
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The fact that we have one out of four people in this state on Medicaid is unsustainable; it's unaffordable, and we need to create jobs in this state, not more government programs to cover people.
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After 30 years in Washington, it is clear that Mitch McConnell has lost touch with our state, its people, and our values.
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It is important never to forget our history, but parts of our history are more appropriately displayed in museums, not on government property.
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There are quite enough sheep already - be a shepherd: be somebody who's bold and who leads.
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There is no one in America more qualified to talk about bailouts than Mitch McConnell.
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Criminalizing behavior, if it's part of the heritage of this state, is in my opinion a bad idea.
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Too many of the career politicians, the established politicians in Washington on both sides of the aisle, are representing their party more than the people. And no matter what the media says, the ballot box will determine what people truly believe.
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Be bold - there's enough Neville Chamberlains in the world; be a Winston Churchill, for crying out loud!