Phil Bredesen Quotes

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• The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world.
• If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.
• Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses.
• Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus…
• It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.
• When I was sworn in as Mayor of Nashville back in 1991, I have to admit to you that I felt for several weeks like…
• My education commitment is simple. I believe that every child is unique. Im going to work as hard as I know how, and Im going…
• When John Kerry and Zell Miller and George Bush can agree on an issue, you know its got legs.
• Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target.
• The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life…
• Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.
• I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.
• Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.
• The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts…
• Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to…
• Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.
• We have in Tennessee a number of wonderful faith-based clinics to serve the uninsured. It is an important principle with them that everyone pays something…

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