The reduction to the attorney general is the same one we've applied to every cabinet in our administration.

That tells us the national AFL-CIO is in a desperate effort to protect its position in Kentucky and has very little regard for the welfare of the majority of people in this state. We fully expected this.

Jack's doing a fine job, and he should be left alone by all the political hacks that want to take shots at him.

The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want to fill the prisons up with people who would violate the merit law, a law that's been proven to be ambiguous at best and impossible to understand at worst.

We have no interest in helping him (Coleman) be a martyr. He has demonstrated a lack of understanding of the facts in the past and probably misunderstands what this administration has accomplished in hiring minorities and women in the state work force.

At these meetings they were talking about non-merit jobs.

We want to attract and retain quality educators, and that's the goal.

This is a police matter. The police took care of it.

Sixty-five is OK, but we have states in this region - West Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia - that have a 70 mph speed limit. There's no reason we can't transition (to that).