Dan McLagan Quotations

We're going to see all kind of things going around as people more intent on playing politics than making policy enter the fray.

We had a very difficult couple of years; we were left with a bad economy and it took some time to get out from under it. The governor has said when more money was available, we're not going to go back to spending it how it was spent.

One lesson we learned from Katrina is that you don't wait 'til the levee breaks to take action.

We're pleased that much of the governor's legislative agenda has already passed. We'll be keeping an eye on the budget process, of course, and the governor's eminent domain legislation.

Virtually every part of state government has had to find efficiencies.

The politically safe thing to would be to do nothing, and then blame the hurricane for any subsequent problems. But that's not leadership.

The governor's HOPE amendment is designed to keep the Democrats from spending lottery dollars on things other than HOPE and pre-K, which is what they did before Sonny Perdue was governor.

The governor didn't choose this candidate; the Board of Regents did.

And we did absolutely everything possible to get the NASCAR to come here.

These are the same Democrats that called the governor's suspension of the gas tax last year a gimmick. It's sad that they're playing partisan politics with gas prices.

Any errors appear to have been made in an effort to do good things.

It's actually an example of how pervasive political correctness is in our society that someone in this office would think the governor would call it anything other than a Christmas tree.

They've put their kids through school, they've made their contributions and now their health care and other things are more expensive for them. It's just the right thing to do.

He thinks it's best to send people out to smaller facilities and individual homes and help integrate them into communities across Georgia. A lot of these people are going to become permanent Georgians. The quicker we can get them into individual communities, the better.

He believes that Mrs. King is an important figure not only nationally but particularly in Georgia. The governor has had a very good relationship with the King family.