Lamar Alexander Quotes

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• September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our…
• Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.
• The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it
• I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be…
• If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money
• I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now
• There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of…
• The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping water at the…
• It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has…
• Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.
• If we trust parents to choose child care for their children, and we trust them to help their children choose a college to attend –…
• If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.
• The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
• I think people are looking for a president who has views and who sticks to those views. So, I think Governor Romney, Governor Perry, Governor…
• I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long,…
• I think higher education is over-regulated.
• I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too much debt, too…
• When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
• I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
• To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous…

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