Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.

The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world.

Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target.

Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses.

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 and death.

When John Kerry and Zell Miller and George Bush can agree on an issue, you know its got legs.

If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.

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 and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.

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 fill it up.

Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.

If you don’t reach out to me when I am in distress, do you want to celebrate my success?

I was out of salt so I threw pepper over my left shoulder for luck and the poor guy behind me almost sneezed himself to death.

Love hath no pride.

Even if you can’t dance, you can shake your body. Even if you can’t sing, you can make some noise.

There are certain life lessons that you can only learn in the struggle.

The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.

Sometimes success is just limited to festival circuit.

When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen, which allowed me to write, more or less anything.

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

Sports and politics are basically all I really care about or talk about.