Bill Halter Quotations

If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means.

My wife Shanti and I are blessed with two wonderful daughters. Nothing is more important to us than protecting their future and the future of every Arkansas child.

I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.

When campaigns use one-word labels, typically it's meant to distract and destroy.

In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take your issues to voters, and you put them out there, and people respond, or they don't.

Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance company profits instead of patients and lowering health costs.

We brag when our athletic teams are the top 20 in the country. We need an education team that's in the top 20 as well.

Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support their families.

I don't have any plans to, but I'm sure it will have some collateral health benefits for him.

I am sure as we go forward we will have appropriate opportunity to have debates.

For years, we have focused on striving for what will make our schools adequate. I believe we can do better than that with a more focused effort and new ideas.

There is a perception that special interest lobbyists are controlling the show. I think we need to change that perception by changing some of our rules.

People are driving over state lines to play the lottery. We need to keep our resources here.

There are other states that don't achieve that much per capita, and we're refining the estimates of what we think is possible with a lottery.

This is an effort that we look at as being important for working people across the state. It is past time for an increase in the minimum wage.

I certainly prefer using the lottery proceeds to increasing property taxes, which I don't favor.

All of this is geared toward providing an education system in Arkansas from top to bottom that is not merely adequate but excellent.