Mike Easley North Quotations

More North Carolina students are taking the SAT and they are improving their scores every single year.

I say to these visitors to North Carolina, you will find the basics of food, water and shelter, but you will also find compassion and caring, ... We are here to help you through this terrible time.

People in North Carolina are more used to these type storms. If you heed the warning and don't put yourself in peril, it makes everybody's work easier.

The State Highway Patrol has responded to more than 3,000 weather-related accidents since Wednesday, ... We still urge people to take care on secondary roads and in rural areas. And especially at night in freezing temperatures it will be very dangerous on the highways of North Carolina tonight.

We were prepared to face the impact of Katrina here in North Carolina, and we are now prepared to send help to those who did not escape her wrath, ... The rest of the country came to our aid after Hurricane Floyd, and we want to do all we can now for our neighbors who have lost so much.

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 Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority.