Quotes by Ben Chandler

As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerful legislators... and I'm afraid they're going to cut my budget.

As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.

I can either side with what I think is right as far as corruption is concerned, or I can wipe it under the rug. The nature of this job is you either make people mad as a result of events and investigations, or you make them happy by sugar-coating it and sweeping it under the rug. And I chose not to go that route.

I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.

I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.

When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frankly, I didn't think I was ready. I wasn't comfortable that I was prepared to do the job.

With the help and support of so many in the blogosphere, we were able to make history. For the first time since 1991 a Democrat picked up a Republican-held seat in a special election-and by a wide margin!