Mike Beebe Quotations

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

This is about the issues we face in Poinsett County.

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