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Vote:   | Arizona already is a recognized leader in government technology, particularly in the use of technology to improve services for our citizens. |
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Vote: | Arizona citizens are already embracing their opportunity to have a real voice in the future direction of their communities. |
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Vote: | Arizona faces many challenges ahead. None is more important or more pressing than passing a new state budget. |
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Vote: | Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before. |
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Vote: | Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation. |
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Vote: | Arizonans from all walks of life represented the Arizona spirit as they carried the Olympic flame or as they compete in the Games. |
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Vote: | At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents. |
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Vote: | Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan. |
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Vote: | During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state. |
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Vote: | Government cannot be all things to all people. |
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Vote: | I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer. |
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Vote: | I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now. |
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Vote: | I often say that Arizonans should decide what's best for Arizona. |
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Vote: | I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid. |
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Vote: | I said my top priority would be the children of Arizona. I have kept that promise. |
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Vote: | I want Arizonans to know that even though these might be difficult times economically, we cannot and we will not shortchange the safety and security of our citizens. |
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Vote: | I was especially moved by Arizona's children who shared their own toys and clothes for children in New York and Washington. |
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Vote: | I'd particularly like to thank you, the Legislature, for your outstanding bipartisan support of our efforts to protect our citizens. |
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Vote: | In a single moment, we witnessed the worst of human behavior. And in the next, the very best of human behavior. And even more, we witnessed the tremendous spirit of Americans. |
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Vote: | In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently. |
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Vote: | It is time to maximize and prioritize our health care dollars. |
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Vote: | It should be balanced without reducing K-12 classroom funding and without crippling our universities, community colleges and state agencies. |
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Vote: | No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted. |
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Vote: | Our open spaces can be saved while at the same time our public schools receive fair value for the trust land that belongs to our students. |
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Vote: | Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did. |
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Vote: | Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media. |
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Vote: | That may be the greatest lesson we learned on September 11. So much of what we took for granted was shattered that day. But how quickly we woke up. |
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Vote: | The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them. |
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Vote: | The good news is our economy will come back. The bad news is it may take awhile. |
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Vote: | The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made. |
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Vote: | This also is not the time to cut or eliminate programs that contribute to the General Fund, like the state Lottery. |
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Vote: | Those who attacked us also learned a valuable lesson. You can knock us down but we'll get back up stronger than ever. |
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Vote: | Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country. |
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Vote: | We can all be proud of our Arizona Diamondbacks, whose dignity, character and abilities earned them the title of World Champions. |
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Vote: | We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before. |
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Vote: | We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets. |
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Vote: | We're helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We've done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now. |
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Vote: | We're long past the point where individual cities, especially in the crowded urban areas, can go it alone. It is now time to work together. |
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Vote: | We've made dramatic progress towards a school system that gives every child the opportunity for a quality education in decent facilities. |
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Vote: | When completed, the budget must provide the services we have promised to our constituents. |
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Vote: | When I delivered my first State of the State Address on January 12, 1998, I spoke of a flame burning in my heart to help Arizona's children. |
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Vote: | Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state? |
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Vote: | While homeland security, the budget and the economy are on the front burner, we must continue to improve our public education system. |
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Vote: | While I have some regrets that this is my last opportunity to deliver a State of the State address, I appreciate and am humbled by the opportunities this great state has given me. |
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Vote: | Within minutes of the attack, your Department of Public Safety mobilized its Operations Center, headed by a national expert on weapons of mass destruction. |
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Vote: | Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City. |