My home state of Kentucky has been especially hard hit. In 2015, more than 1,300 Kentuckians died after drug overdoses, many with opioids in their system. That’s about four per day.
I grew up in Kentucky, so we do not have a pro team. My family was split between the Cubs and the Reds. I would say I go Cubs usually. That’s sort of where I grew up. My older brother was a huge Reds fan.
As I grew older, farms in Kentucky provided me with many jobs in hauling hay and in cutting tobacco. In addition to helping fund my college years, these jobs helped me to meet an array of very interesting and amazing men and women.
My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic opportunity, and our quality of life is so high, that people who are born here can stay here, and people who aren’t fortunate enough to be born in Kentucky, can look forward to locating here.
The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing.
Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.
I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.
A lot of great bluegrass comes out of Kentucky. There’s a lot of great music, like the Judds, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ricky Skaggs, and Keith Whitley. There’s a lot of bluegrass intertwined with country music.
As long as I’m at Kentucky, you’ve got to be able to take the shots, or don’t stay at Kentucky. To be the coach at Kentucky and get what I get, you can’t be a 35-year-old coach whose never been fired. I’ve been fired.
We’re in Kentucky, dude. How many variations of Bevin are there? Many. Bevins, Blevins, Belvin, Belvins, I’m sure. Or Bevin even with an -eavin or… Bivin or Bivins. And we’re probably all cousins if you go back far enough.
My granddad and great granddad were Baptist preachers from Western Kentucky.
I actually missed some assignments at Kentucky because my teachers were like, ‘Didn’t you check your e-mail?’ I was like, ‘I don’t really know how to use e-mail.’
As governor, I’ll treat all Kentucky families with dignity and respect.
I learned a lot at Kentucky.
Our teachers and first responders spend their careers making Kentucky better, and they deserve the secure retirement they were promised.
I hope that I’m doing my people justice and I hope that maybe someone from somewhere else can get a glimpse of the life of a Kentucky boy.
I owe it to the people of Kentucky not to bow to terror, but to continue to do what is right for their families and for mine.
Can I say this in a humble way – I don’t need the money. If I stop coaching today at Kentucky, my toes are up, and I’m eating Cheetos, and I’m fine.
I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did most of the construction himself and built it on land that his father had given him when he married my mother Faye.
George Clooney sort of lost his ‘George Clooney-ness’ the first day I met him. He’s not George Clooney in my eyes – he’s George from Kentucky with an awesome, awesome heart.
I was honored to have the endorsement of the Kentucky Fraternal Order of Police, and they expect me to really advocate for our law enforcement community for a commonwealth and county attorneys.
The first music I remember hearing was the traditional songs of Kentucky – things like ‘Roll Along Kentucky Moon.’
Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the ‘Soave sia il vento’ and ‘Kentucky Woman.’ We have different words for ‘art’ and ‘idea’ because they are two different things.
Prioritizing our children also means prioritizing their teachers. If Kentucky is to compete nationally – not to mention with our neighbors – we need to pay our teachers a living wage.
I left home at 18, but I still voted in Kentucky. Every holiday, I came home to Kentucky.
I’m not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester.
The Medicaid expansion enacted under Obamacare is unaffordable for the taxpayers of Kentucky and should be repealed.
I love general history. That’s all I read really. I don’t read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that’s really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.
The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
It’s a tough business, yes it is. But I’ve been fortunate. The only real hard times I had was when I was with Montague’s Kentucky Serenades. We really had it tough then.
I don’t get into these petty things, Kentucky-Louisville. To me, it’s nonsense… There will be people at Kentucky that will have a nervous breakdown if they lose to us… They’ve got to put the fences up on bridges. There will be people consumed by Louisville.
If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald’s, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move.
I can’t escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.
Kentucky’s first responders and fire fighters are true public servants who keep our communities safe.
I don’t care if you believe in ghosts at all. I challenge you to go spend the night walking the halls of Waverly Hills in Kentucky, which is a terrifying place.
I wasn’t in the right place at Kentucky, and I don’t think I ever would have been comfortable in college.
It’s amazing, the things you learn, the experiences you go through, the feeling of being like a rock star that goes with being a University of Kentucky basketball player. Just the ability to feel fame for the first time – that’s something Kentucky gives you.
Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid – if you’ll accept that.
You can’t win the Kentucky Derby unless you’re on a thoroughbred.
And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan – I am just the most notorious one.
The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single most important thing we can do to create opportunity.
Health care should not be a partisan issue. Because health care is a Kentucky issue.
I did not walk every step of the Trail of Tears at one time. Instead, over the last 20 years, I have walked various segments of it in Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.
When we rebuild Kentucky and boost our economy, we need to do it the right way. That means treating our neighbors with the respect they deserve and making sure new growth actually puts more money in the pockets of workers.
The spacing is so much different in the NBA… There’s more spacing, more 1-on-1. I got more space to do work – something I didn’t get to show at Kentucky.
While Matt Bevin insults teachers and bullies our neighbors, I’m focused on restoring decency and bringing people together to get real results for our families in Eastern Kentucky.
My people came from western Tennessee and western Kentucky.
My favorite Saturday, outside any Saturday that Louisiana State University plays football, is the Kentucky Derby.
We all want Kentucky to be a place where our children and grandchildren want to – and can afford to raise their own children, keeping families together and growing our commonwealth. For the common good.
When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.
Bill Monroe is not singing about life in America. He’s singing about life in Kentucky and Tennessee. And yet it’s had this tremendous impact, not just in America but in the world. Why is Bill Monroe’s hyper-regional music so universal? We can be so different and yet still share a tremendous amount.
Most Americans don’t know how beautiful an area of the country Kentucky is.
I love Kentucky people, but you have to get on the inside before they accept you.
I am working to ensure major corporations stop putting profits ahead of the health and safety of our Kentucky families.
My family has existed in eastern Kentucky for as long as there are records. If you’re familiar with the famous Hatfield-McCoy family feud back in the 1860s, ’70s and ’80s in the United States, my family was an integral part of that.
In our state, I’m really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can’t imagine being anything else.
