His speech is about half an hour. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you very much. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you very much. Oh, my goodness. Thank you. Thank you all. Please be seated. Lieutenant governor kegel, speaker ralston, speaker pro tem shaffer and speaker pro tem jones, members of this great general assembly, constitutional officers, members of the consulate corps, and my fellow georgians, in 1944, georgias own Johnny Mercer wrote the lyrics of a song titled accentuate the positive. The most memorable lines from that song are, youve got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, latch on to the affirmative, dont mess around with mr. In between. Now, that was great advice for our nation as world war ii was drawing to a close. And its great advice for all of us today. For the past six years, ive had the opportunity to report to you on the state of our state. And i do so again today. The first year was 2011, and i was just entering the office of governor. Our state was s
Just like the analysts and special agents who are working these issues, we aim to stay on top of the threat picture and to help devise tactics and strategies and tools for getting ahead of it. Today its standard it is standard procedure for agents conducting counterterrorism investigations to consult throughout the process with attorneys and prosecutors in the National Security division. That is to ensure that all potential avenues for destruction of a threat, intelligence gathering, investigation and prosecution are all preserved. If you asked me to break down how much intelligence versus how much Law Enforcement work we do, i would be hard pressed to give you an answer. We are almost always pursuing multiple tracks at the same time. We no longer have to across organizational lines to bring tools and talent to bear against a particular threat or problem. For instance, our Office Lawyers in the office of intelligence work day in and day out with the Intelligence Community to secure aut
Community including the American Academy that we have been through, it is not an extensive study. But the literature that the staff has been working. Much of what we already had, trying to devour. The most interesting meeting is with an interfaith group. Not only the traditional mainstream protestant churches, the Catholic Council of bishops, but evangelicals. They are reluctant to engage in is because it is may be an attack on a cultural thing related to gun ownership and the like. All these groups with the muslim community, the hindu community, etc. It was really a fascinating discussion. And then we matt with sportsmen groups that is distinct from but do not disagree with the gun owner groups. They have a different perspective that includes the blue water strategies, the outdoor industries. With a gun owners and the marines and troops, headed by a retired Major General to fire arms and export roundtable. The independent firearms owners. There is a difference among them as well. We a
For u. S. Troops in afghanistan in a way that afghan sovereignty will not be compromised, in a way that afghan law will not be compromised, in a way that the provisions that we arrive at through our talks will give the United States the satisfaction of what it seeks, and will also provide the Afghan People the benefit that they are seeking through this partnership and the subsequent agreement. [indiscernible] that is not for us to decide. It is an issue for the United States. Numbers are not going to make a difference to the situation in afghanistan. It is the broader relationship that will make a difference to afghanistan and beyond in the region. The specifics of numbers are issues that the military will decide and afghanistan will have no particular concern and we are talking of numbers and how they are deployed. [indiscernible] i direct my question in my own language. Mr. President , the mission of the United States, after 2014 how this mission will be, will it be resembling the sa
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