Political Quotes

“In 1948, back in my home state of Kentucky, Governor Earle C. Clements made the Commonwealth the 38th state to enact a State Police Act. Kentucky was changing rapidly, and Governor Clements saw a need for a statewide police force to support the local authorities. With this measure, Kentucky kicked off fifty proud years of state police enforcement. For each twist and turn through the last half century, the Kentucky State Police have responded by continuing to push themselves to provide the best service they can to protect Kentuckians. The police motto is ``To Serve and Protect,'' but the Kentucky State Police have another slogan as well--``A Proud Past . . . A Prouder Tomorrow.'' That says it all about this group of men and women so committed to Kentucky. The first decade of the agency brought the very first pay raise to state police officers. Their pay went from $130 to $150 a month. In the Fifties, the state police took to the air with the first aircraft purchase while they still patrolled the highways in ``incognito squads,'' as they called them, checking for speeders and overweight trucks. The Sixties put the officers in gray cars just like their gray uniforms, creating an instantly recognizable presence in person and on the roadways. The Kentucky State Police responded to a need they perceived statewide by creating Trooper Island, a cost-free summer camp for underprivileged boys on a former Army Corps of Engineers island in Dale Hollow Lake.”