My goal is to have a simple lottery to help our people and solve a decades old problem dealing with our general fund, particularly Medicaid. Let us solve this together and allow the people in your district the right to be a part of the process with a vote.

As your Governor, I will not stand complicit to a policy that places the citizens of Alabama in harm's way.

The people of this state won't back down from a challenge. Not in the fight for civil rights, not in defending our nation's freedoms, not in the aftermath of devastating natural disasters.

What I don't want to see is our political system corrupted by gambling money, especially casino gambling money.

Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.

You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

You can't punish the middle classes for going to drama school - you need to punish the education system and the associative governments for devaluing the arts.

The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living freely, reading many books, going on frequent trips, cultivating minor eccentricities... but genuinely being a writer is difficult, because you have to write something that will convince both yourself and readers.