10 Quotes by Michael F. Easley

My budget is a solid, balanced plan that allows us to make real, sustainable progress and provides the revenue necessary to fund our priorities.

So our message to these students is simple: stay in school and study hard. Washington may leave you on the curb, but North Carolina will not.

Teachers are held accountable for educating our children in school. We as parents should be held accountable for our children at home.

Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.

We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina.