Ernie Fletcher famous quotes

I would like this to be a new day. I would hope now that we can focus on doing the people's business.
-- Ernie Fletcher

#People #New Day #Focus

This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.
-- Ernie Fletcher

#Rights #America #Principles

A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.
-- Ernie Fletcher

#Government #People

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.
-- Ernie Fletcher

#Government #Progress #Needs

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.
-- Ernie Fletcher

#Opportunity #Giving #Next

Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.
-- Ernie Fletcher

#Jobs #Government #Needs

My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic opportunity, and our quality of life is so high, that people who are born here can stay here, and people who aren't fortunate enough to be born in Kentucky, can look forward to locating here.
-- Ernie Fletcher

#Opportunity #Kentucky #People

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.

Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.

Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.

No matter what happens, you can get through this day. Inhale. Focus on the word, 'relax. Exhale. Say, 'I can do this!' And then do it.

You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.