Bill Halter Quotations

I certainly prefer using the lottery proceeds to increasing property taxes, which I don't favor.

There are other states that don't achieve that much per capita, and we're refining the estimates of what we think is possible with a lottery.

For years, we have focused on striving for what will make our schools adequate. I believe we can do better than that with a more focused effort and new ideas.

I am sure as we go forward we will have appropriate opportunity to have debates.

I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.

My wife Shanti and I are blessed with two wonderful daughters. Nothing is more important to us than protecting their future and the future of every Arkansas child.

If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means.

People are driving over state lines to play the lottery. We need to keep our resources here.

I don't have any plans to, but I'm sure it will have some collateral health benefits for him.

We brag when our athletic teams are the top 20 in the country. We need an education team that's in the top 20 as well.