Mike Beebe Quotations

Frankly, that's one thing that may have changed. We've had the luxury of being able to fine-tune some things that might have been rolled out earlier with a primary.

I think you judge his performance or mine or anyone else's on the totality of what's going on.

I think you can look at records and you can look at what people have done and you can make your own decisions about whether someone can walk the walk.

I think the American people will hold everyone responsible that was in charge of that.

I think we've had enough consolidation. Let's what happens. Schools are the central focus in so many communities and they're key to a community's viability. I think we need to implement those policies that ensure that every child, regardless of what school they go to, gets at least what is constitutionally required and hopefully much, much more than that.

I think that I'm worried about running my campaign and not trying to get into a particular storm with him right now.

We have a Supreme Court justice who said, 'You all have been doing this for 23 years, when are you going to get it right ?' I think that is disingenuous.

What we have to do is make sure more people are in that pool of having some opportunity to have some coverage so that we lessen that pressure to increase prices to make up for those losses.

What I found is that in all of the major leaps forward that Arkansas has had over the last 20 years ... it's always been a collaboration, a partnership between the private sector and the public sector.

There have been three major court cases in the last 25 years on this. Each one of those court cases set a different test. The court keeps changing the rules. ... I'm not being critical necessarily of that. Courts can change the rules. Times change, standards change, rules change, tests change, the approaches change.

It would be better if we got out in front of it, where the court wouldn't have to do it. It would be better if we could anticipate and it would be better where we could provide those opportunities for our young people, so we're not just reacting or responding to a court case.

As chief law enforcement officer, you can't condone illegality and I don't. You also have the humanitarian approach to realize that a lot of these people are here and trying to contribute economically.

This is about the issues we face in Poinsett County.

You can't just abandon the generation you already have in the process.

This is the kind of research and development we need to be seeking and exploring. Countries like China and India know exactly what they?re going to do 10 years from now. They?re going to take things from us. The challenge for us is to figure out what we?re going to do it 10 years from now that no one else has a clue about.

It's a never-ending battle that we will continue from year to year. Hopefully it won't be court battles. Hopefully it won't be involved in lawsuits and Supreme Court cases. Hopefully it will be missions and policies that are directed by the electorate of the people.

If you do that, you do a number of things. You elevate the chances of those children being successful because they don't enter so far behind and stay so far behind. You also advance the progress of the kids who didn't need it because the entire class moves faster.

I support any clarification that private property shouldn't be taken for private purposes.

I applaud that as a beginning for trying to broaden what I consider to be the problem, and that is broaden the number of folks who have health care coverage available to them.

Utility representatives will not show up at your door unannounced and will not ask for banking information in unsolicited phone calls. If you get a request for personal information that leaves you skeptical, contact my office and we can help determine if the call was legitimate.

You want to provide as many opportunities and help rural schools as much as you can. But you can't do it at the risk of affecting any of the quality standards and educational opportunities for any child, regardless of where they live and regardless of what the size of their school is.

The first thing you've got to realize is the federal government has created this problem by not permitting their alleged immigration policies to be enforced at the borders.

The fund needs to be used to meet whatever the opportunity is. The governor needs to have the ability to put things on the table that would close the deal, so to speak.

The first problem is we've had this border opened and people coming across the border for the last several years with no checks and balances. It's just like water going over a dam when a lake gets full. The borders have not been secure. The borders are porous.