Lamar Alexander Quotes

• 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 charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.

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  Country, Powerful, September 11

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• Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

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  Size, Fit, Jackets

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• 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 reducing health care costs.

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  Country, Thinking, Goal

  "Interviews with Speaker Pelosi & Sen. Alexander". "This Week" with Jose Antonio Vargas, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 28, 2010.

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• 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 changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.

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  Character, Interesting, Doe

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• The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it

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  Country, Goal, Pieces

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• If we trust parents to choose child care for their children, and we trust them to help their children choose a college to attend – and both those systems have been so successful – why do we not also trust them to choose the best elementary or high school for their children?

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  Children, School, Successful

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• Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.

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  Running, Government, Ideas

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California.

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  Buddhist, California, Southern

  "Republicans hammer Gore over U.S. policy toward China" by Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. March 10, 1999.

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• 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 these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters are of that.

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  War, Iraq, Numbers

  "News From CNN" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. November 16, 2004.

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• I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.

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  Reality, Eggs, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money

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  Vote, Forbes, Should

  "They're up, they're down, they're all around Iowa" By Janine Yagielski, www.cnn.com. August 13, 1999.

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• Americans wouldn't do that [cashing out the same day]. Then they would be in the great old thing we used to call the marketplace. You know, we have hundreds of millions of stock shares floating every day. People buy them and sell them and trade them.

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  Old Things, People, Would Be

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

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  Winning, Race, Presidential

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• The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping water at the farm well ... But the windmills we are talking about today are not your grandmother's windmills. Each one is typically 100 yards tall, two stories taller than the Stature of Liberty, taller than a football field is long.

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  Football, Grandmother, Talking

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