Governor Beshear took his public oath of office.

They looked back at the accomplishments of the last four years and ahead at what he thinks can be done in the next four.

Dream of a better.

I am honored that in a minute I will take the oath of office to continue to serve as your governor.

Serving in this role is a special duty, a solemn commitment.

It is an obligation I accept with great reverence and humility, but also with great excitement and anticipation.

I stand here today enthusiastic and hopeful for all we will accomplish for this Commonwealth over the next four years.

We will continue our record breaking economic win streak and create the good paying jobs that will provide a bright and promising future for every single Kentucky child.

We will invest in our educators.

We will continue to build what were thought to be impossible infrastructure projects and we will run high speed Internet to every home in Kentucky.

We will keep our promise to counties and communities devastated by natural disasters, by not just rebuilding, but revitalizing.

You're lieutenant governor, and I will be there personally every step of the way.

We love you and we will get the job done.

In December of 1792, our first year that united We Stand, divided We Fall became our state motto.

It's been with us every step of the way.

Our people, like the motto, have been tested over two centuries by wars, depressions and recessions and the noble fight for civil rights for all of our people.

In the past four years, we faced our own tests.

Each we have met with love, compassion and empathy.

When we faced a pandemic, we sacrificed for each other.

We came together every day at four or 5 p.m. and we shined green lights all over the Commonwealth as the color of compassion.

Thank you to all of our health care heroes who helped us through that deadly time.

When tornadoes leveled towns and flooding carried away homes and even loved ones, we came together, neighbors pulling neighbors from their basements or caring fellow Kentuckians through the current.

Thank you to our National Guard and first responders for their amazing response.

I made a promise to be there to rebuild every home and every life, and we are going to see it through with now seven high ground communities rising in the east and over 150 fully constructed new homes for our families in the West.

We truly get through the hard times and we get through them together, but we also get to the good times and we get to those together as well.

In our first four years, we secured the best years of economic development in our state's history with the help of an incredible transportation cabinet.

We're building the brand Spence Companion Bridge without Tolls.

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The entire Mountain Parkway.

And to those in the West, we are pushing the I-69 project forward.

We secured federal funding to run high speed Internet to every community.

We're building the two biggest battery plants on planet Earth, and we've opened the cleanest, greenest, recycled paper mill in the country.

We've had the best year on record for both our bourbon and our tourism industries.

We have record high budget surpluses and record low unemployment.

We've now created over 50,000 new jobs and generated a state record $28.5 billion in new private sector investment.

We've passed sports betting and medical marijuana.

We've capped the cost of insulin, and health care is now expanding all over the Commonwealth, including the fact we're building the first hospital in West Louisville in 150 years.

It's about time.

Put simply, we are at a moment in time where the true potential is there to achieve our collective dream, the dream of a better Kentucky.

And we can and we should realize that dream.

If we don't stand in our own way.